Phil Nevin
Phil Nevin
Phillip Joseph Nevinis an American professional baseball manager for the Reno Aces, the Arizona Diamondbacks' Triple-A affiliate in the Pacific Coast League. He spent twelve seasons as a player in Major League Baseballfrom 1995 through 2006, playing for the Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers, Anaheim Angels, San Diego Padres, Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, and Minnesota Twins...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth19 January 1971
excited goodbye great honestly opportunity packing people ready start stuff teammates time
I'm going to go in and say goodbye to my teammates and start packing and get my stuff ready to go to Toronto. I'm excited. I honestly am. It's an opportunity to play, it's a great organization, there's some great people there that I do know from a long time ago. I'm just excited to get over there.
anger animosity certain change great obviously ride runs scenery time toward
Sometimes a change in scenery is good, sometimes time runs out in a certain spot. It did for me here. There's no animosity or anger toward anything. It's been an unbelievable ride here, obviously something I'll never forget. There'll be some great memories.
forward looking
I'm looking forward to making up for things this year.
coming eddie guy swinging throwing
Eddie is a guy who usually comes right after you throwing strikes. So I was swinging coming out of the gate. He just missed.
bigger figure headache trying
I'm done trying to figure those things out, ... The more I try to figure them out, the bigger headache I get.
flow last three
I'm more in the flow of the game. Last year, it was like pinch-hitting three times.
chances fourth honest left year
I'll be honest with you. If I'd have been in the fourth year of my contract, if I'd have had one year left on my deal, I probably would have done it. You don't get that many chances to win.
hit
We just hadn't had that big hit in a long time.
arms chasing good job pounding saw strikes throwing
We did a good job of not chasing anything when he wasn't throwing strikes. You saw him out there throwing strikes and pounding the zone. He's as good as there is at that age. He's going to be dominant. You don't see many arms like that come around very often.
baseball best coach few hitting steps tiger took woods
Best hitting coach in baseball, ... He has this way of communicating and getting things through to you. We look at what we're doing like what Tiger Woods went through, revamping the swing. He took a few steps back and one step forward.
hitting
You should have been here, I was hitting fourth,
early experience finding hate hopefully learning obviously saying start ways win
I hate to keep saying it's early every day. It's obviously ... hopefully there's some learning experience in this. We've got to start finding ways to win and not keep finding ways to lose.
battle behind catch felt five fun hit job rather
I felt for Bard behind the plate. That job is not fun, it's a battle every five days. I'd rather hit it than catch it.
basically handle immature
I didn't handle anything well. It was my most embarrassing season, and I was basically immature about the whole situation.