Buck Showalter
Buck Showalter
William Nathaniel "Buck" Showalter IIIis an American Major League Baseballmanager for the Baltimore Orioles. He has previously served as manager of the New York Yankees, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Texas Rangers. He is also formerly a professional baseball player and a television analyst for ESPN...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth23 May 1956
CityDe Funiak Springs, FL
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It's hard to maintain it, especially at the level he was spoiling us with. I think he is going to finish strong. Hank is a smart young man, and I think he will learn from it. He is only going to get better and better.
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A lot of things have gone wrong in the last year, ... Some of it we've self-created.
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It's been a long trip, it obviously hasn't been fruitful. Everyone goes through periods, this is a tough period for us. Everyone knows what success is and we're not having it right now.
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We talked last night when he got in and he said he was ready to go. He looked free and easy out there today. He still throws hard.
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Two veteran pitchers surviving the heat. Kenny and Radke gave their clubs everything they had. That was impressive.
number ways
There are a number of different ways we can go.
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You know how there's talk every year about the winter meetings and then people come away disappointed because not much happened? I think this is going to be the year to make all of those people happy.
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You like having a guy like Coco around him. I'm sure he will have a lot of questions along the way. Coco is not going to point him toward any shortcuts.
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You'll miss their presence. Maybe we should get a life-size picture of them and put it in front of their locker.
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You don't do what he has done over a long period of time and not have some mental toughness.
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We just couldn't get those last two outs. We played good, we just couldn't quite finish it.
easy guys played season six trust
We've played six games. There's a lot of season left. It's very easy to trust these guys to come through.
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We've discussed it. We're not there yet but it's something we've talked about.
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With young pitching, it's not a process that happens overnight. There are going to be some steps forward and some steps backward. Mistakes that you might get away with in the Minor Leagues are exposed here. There has to be a level of patience as young pitchers come along.