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
cutting five goes innings
If he goes five innings and he's just cutting them up, we'd probably let him go longer.
anybody consistent granted hard loves takes walks
I don't think anybody takes for granted how hard it is to do what he's doing. He's consistent in all walks of life. He loves to win, he loves to compete, he loves to prepare.
conversation couple exciting next topic
It's pretty exciting not to have this to be a topic of conversation the next couple of years.
course depth everybody happen hopefully knows left pick
It's unfortunate, but things are going to happen over the course of the season. Everybody knows your depth is going to be tested. Hopefully Ian will get back and pick up right where he left off.
history impressive number people played somebody
You think about the years and the number of people who have played this game. When somebody says, '... the history of the game,' that's special. Somebody does not have to tell us to know we have an impressive group.
family rangers talk therapy
You talk about therapy for him. It's therapy for us to see someone who's a big part of the Rangers family in our clubhouse.
club depends looking
That's something we're looking at. A lot depends on how we're constructing our club at the end of the spring.
deal roll spring team
That's something every team will have to deal with. This is one of those Spring Trainings when you just have to roll with the punches.
biggest damage formidable hits scattered walking
That's the biggest play of the game. That and the walks. We scattered around a lot of hits, and they scattered around some hits and some walks. They have a formidable lineup and do enough damage without us walking them.
good hard tonight
It's a hard job. He's done it well for us and he'll do it again. He's had some good outings, tonight wasn't one of them.
balls hit
They hit a lot of balls that snuck through.
capable continuing extend four good help nights pitching three
It was just not his night. Three out of four nights ... I'm not going to extend him there. He wasn't pitching as good as he's capable of. He's scuffling. There's no sense in him continuing to scuffle if I can help it.
themselves
These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.
anyone workout
This is just the first day and we didn't want things to be too structured, so I really didn't see anyone working out. We'll have our first workout (Thursday) and we'll see what we have then.