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 creates a certain mentality among the other starters to go deeper into games. It makes your bullpen so much better. Everybody knows their roles. It helps save the bullpen.
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As a team, you just try to survive them because you hate what it does to your pitching staff a lot of times. Eighteen innings in a day with no off days around it are tough.
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I'd be happy if someone said he could come back by May 1. The trouble is, there is nothing in baseball to compare this injury to.
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He had a blister that was heating up in the sixth inning. Hopefully, he'll get to the point where he can go another inning, but between the blister and his pitch count, we wanted to be careful.
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Going in, that may be the thought. But we want to see, with the experience he had last year, how he's grown from that.
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I'm happy for Brad, he has been beating himself up.
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Comparatively speaking, he's as good a candidate as we have. He's a guy you could potentially put there and leave alone.
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It's pretty exciting not to have this to be a topic of conversation the next couple of years.
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John was outstanding. We all know how our ballpark plays for left-handers if they can command the inner half of the plate and change speeds on the outer half.
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He's got great stuff. How do you verbalize the presence, the moxie, the body language? He's got all of that.
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There's a little concern about who's going to play first.
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Eraser is going to make it tough on us.
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I can tell you what we're looking at right now on February 20-whatever, but that will change. There's a long way to go.
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He's got some anxiety I'm sure, first game. I think he'll get better. He knows he has to be better. Hopefully, he'll get this one behind him and get his feet on the ground.