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
add clear good hurdles pitcher
There are different hurdles a pitcher has to clear on the way to establishing himself, ... This is a good stat for him to add to his resume.
decided safe
We decided not to use him and be on the safe side.
centered found good holes loss tough tried win
We tried everything. They had two groundballs that found holes and Cabrera centered a ball. It was a good win for them and a tough loss for us.
beat figure great pitcher ran
We ran into a great pitcher today. But to get to where we need to go, we've got to figure out a way to beat those guys.
career continued feels happy kevin missed pitches
We're real happy with Kevin this spring. He's healthy, feels good, all his pitches are there, he hasn't missed a beat. We like what he's done in his career and he has continued on that path.
best coming easy facility four games gets input key love people playing three tweak
With these new facilities, the key is how they look after three or four years. This place gets better every year. With their input and ours, we tweak things every year. It makes it easy to get 'B' games. People love coming here and playing 'B' games because we have the best 'B' game facility in baseball.
august chance dice grinding roll
We're grinding like heck, ... to get a chance to roll the dice in August and September.
kindness maybe sign university
We have not been kind to them, ... Between Whittleman and Danks and Teagarden, we have not been kind to the University of Texas. Maybe that's why Augie's here. Hey, maybe we'll sign Augie.
presence prime
The presence of someone like that, really in what should be the prime of his career, is exciting.
bumps came few good proud
I was proud of the way he came back. He showed us some good things. He just had a few bumps in the road.
face tying
I wasn't going to let him face the tying run.
edison hope progress
We hope that one day Edison makes the progress that Cabrera has made.
attributes describe fit help hope successful willing
We hope he can help us in the big leagues. It's very unconventional, but if you describe all the attributes that successful knuckleballers have up here, R.A. would fit into that. He's a strike-thrower, competitive, no-ego and he's willing to do what it takes.
defense production reduction run
I look at stats just like you do. It's about run production and run reduction with defense and pitching.