Terry Francona
Terry Francona
Terrence Jon "Terry" Francona, nicknamed "Tito", is the current manager of the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball. He was a first baseman and outfielder in the majors from 1981 to 1990. After retiring as a player, he managed several minor league teams in the 1990s before managing the Philadelphia Phillies for four seasons. In 2004, Francona was hired to manage the Boston Red Sox, and that year he led the team to its first World Series championship since 1918...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth22 April 1959
CityAberdeen, SD
CountryUnited States of America
It's kind of interesting when a guy struggles. Maybe sometimes it gives you a little way to get to know him a little bit better. I like this kid. This is a keeper. He didn't have a very good outing the other day but he's a keeper. The more you get to know people, the better you feel about them.
Is it going to happen? It might not happen, but we're trying to cover every base we can.
After all these games we've played, we've played ourselves into a situation where it comes down to two games. That's just the way it is.
Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.
You run into nights like tonight, when you don't have an answer for anything they're doing and it only gets worse.
Oh, yeah. Because of what he did go through this winter, his showing up a little bit late, but showing up in the right frame of mind, is OK with me. We rely on him so much that if that's what it takes, it's OK with me.
Maybe we can get him down to Pawtucket three days before he's eligible.
We're going home. We have a lot of business to tend to, but at home we hope to be a force. We have an important week; it'll be fun.
The excitement level will be off the charts. You'll see a lot of guys running to the ballpark. I might jog.
Yeah, he tolerated it pretty well, ... I think the hope is, and again, we might be reaching a little bit, the hope is that he might be available towards the end of the week. If he's available, he's a pretty good hitter. From where I sit, I appreciate him trying.
When you get down to your last game, you can have a bullpen full of everybody. You can't do that right now. We need somebody to make these starts. While they're still starting, they need to start. Once we get past each guy's start, you may see various guys going out of that bullpen as soon as they're available. That's a definite.
He's going to have to be a little flexible, and we'll work this out. If there's not flexibility on his part, too, we'll probably bump heads a little bit, but we'll make it work.
From the first to last pitch, I thought we played with an amazing confidence,
Whatever he did, he found himself, because early he didn't have his good stuff.