Augie Garrido
Augie Garrido
August Edmun Garrido, Jr.is a former head coach in NCAA Division I college baseball and is current special assistant to the athletic director at the University of Texas. At the end of the 2016 season, Garrido compiled a collegiate record of 1975-919-9. He has taken his programs to 15 College World Series...
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I'm glad they don't judge wins by the number of hits each team has. This weekend, we won three games but it didn't belong to us. Every inning was a battle.
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Rice's pitching staff fell apart the year after they won the national championship. You just don't know until the season starts.
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Kyle has all the right tools, mentally and physically. He's just thrilled by being a baseball player. He's a leader, and he's very adaptable. He's his own guy, and he's a remarkable guy.
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With so many juniors leaving school and 21-year-olds eligible to leave at any time, baseball is in a unique position. The schools are staggering through this first year in trying to figure out what the APR really means.
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We need to stabilize the infield. We're trying to establish a system that will give us consistency.
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We have a lot of new players that have a chance to make important contributions. We're just getting ready to take the journey.
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We have to move forward. We have to put an infield together and find a short reliever.
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We didn't like it very much. It has to be acceptable, because it happened. All we can do is move on from here.
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We ran into two pitchers that year who shut us down.
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We thought throughout the season we had a championship-caliber team, but I know you can't be national champion without the right things happening, and they did in this case,
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We don't have any expectations. Other people see us as No. 1 or whatever, and that's their opinion. The question is: Will the players fall victim to trying to live up to it? We have the same right to fail as any other team, regardless of the past. We're going to play to have fun and play with energy. The fun comes out when you develop expectations.
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We responded really well to the three runs. As the game went on we played with less energy and effectiveness.
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We're just now scratching the surface of finding our team identity. And when we do ...
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We're looking forward to honoring the players from the past who made this program what it is today, ... Our fans should expect the total package they find at Round Rock (site of Dell Diamond) and other nice stadiums.