Russ Adams
Russ Adams
Russ Moore Adamsis a former Major League Baseball player who played for the Toronto Blue Jays, San Diego Padres, and New York Mets organizations. Adams bats left-handed and throws with his right hand...
deal fought good learning overall played season ups
We played with scrappiness and fought all the way through. Overall it was a good season learning with how to deal with ups and downs.
best camp changing click figuring gets help last learning maybe process ready suits wore work year
This camp I'm figuring out what makes you click and maybe changing some things that I did last year that maybe wore me out or work on something that I didn't do last year that I can do to help myself improve. It's all part of the learning process of figuring out what suits you best and what gets you ready to play at your best.
damage hit worried
It hit me good. I was a little worried that it was going to be sore. But there really wasn't any real damage to it. It's going to be fine.
commitment far hit looking moves nose pressure run team type
I think this is the type of off-season that they were looking to have. I think that they hit it right on the nose as far as what they were looking to do. You got your own expectations for yourself as well and when you make those kind of moves and when the organization makes that commitment to try and make your team a lot better, you've got to kind of take that pressure and run with it.
messing tired
I was just tired of messing with my hair.
against confidence good mound rolling
He's got good stuff. You can see his confidence is rising. It was good to get him off the mound because he was rolling and we couldn't do much against him.
afraid confidence good throw
He (Kazmir) has good stuff. You can see when his confidence is rising. He's not afraid to throw the off-speed. It was good to get him off the mound. He was rolling.
paid practice repetition talk techniques work
He doesn't talk as much as (Hudson) did. But it's all really the same techniques we're using. It's all about repetition and getting to know each other. We're out there every day before and after practice getting our work in and the work has paid off.
farther final four toughest
But he made it a little farther this time, so he's getting closer. It's just about the toughest thing you can do in sport. It's like making the Final Four - or the World Series.
good help last numbers together worry
The last thing I want to do is look at my numbers and worry about that. I want to put together good at-bats each night. That's the one thing I can do to help my numbers out.
changes cold coming feeling gotten money strings tenor
The feeling I had was that he had gotten cold feet. The tenor of all the changes was to write out all of the strings attached... It was like, 'give me $150,000, no strings attached.' But that money is coming from the state.
butter cut rest waiting
I'm waiting for Butter to get here before I cut the rest off.
against balls cleveland hard hit time
Against Cleveland we hit a lot of balls hard on Sunday. Every time we did, it was right at them.
batting depend fight group guess hitting practice work
I don't know how that's going to work out. That may be one of the things we fight about. I guess it will depend on which batting practice group we're hitting in.