Wayne Graham
Wayne Graham
Wayne Leon Grahamis a former major-league baseball player and the head coach of the Rice Owls baseball team in Houston, Texas. He has coached one College World Series championship team and five NJCAA World Series champions...
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This could turn Houston into the baseball capital of the world. Seeing Major League Baseball every day really opened it up. It enhanced the dream.
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This is the sort of game where those guys lead the way and the younger players will be looking to feed off their direction.
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The whole thing about playing him at third base is that he doesn't have to make a relay throw and he can rehab his arm. He's got a great arm action so he doesn't have to stress it.
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We've worked harder this fall than we ever have because we started earlier, ... We started right when we could and started doing the individual work because we anticipate that we have a lot of talent and that there is some talent that we need to develop to fill in with the existing talent. It does look good.
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We can't really take any comfort from that (the history). Everything starts again from Friday night, and they'll be smarting after getting beaten at home in the last round.
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Joe feels that he can function better in his dual role as a Sunday starter. He's obviously a bat that we have to have.
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Josh is a quality hitter, and against Long Beach it showed that we can not afford to have his bat out of the lineup. So until his arm is well, against quality opponents we're going to have to have Josh either play left field with a long relay man or play first base. His bat has got to be in the lineup.
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He's a good athlete. Even though he's made some acrobatic catches that should have been easy, he's made them all.
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Fullerton is just like us, in that their first area of concentration is pitching and defense. I think they are an Omaha team. I don't think there is any question about it.
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He just happened to get a pitch up and the guy (Russell) happened to catch it.
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You can't grieve too much ? you're down two infielders right now. You just have to try and work your way through it, that's all.
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There is nothing wrong with [pitching by committee] in mid-week [games]. It creates unique problems for hitters. I think it creates more problems for good-hitting teams than it does for the other teams.
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It's a matter of how the bullpen looks as to whether Bell goes in there or Crow goes in there. Bell won't be ready for a start for another 10 days.
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Everybody can have a bad game, and we did. These guys have all proven that they can handle adversity. We're in the midst of a little adversity.