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
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.
people struggle
We struggled. A lot of people struggle in Boston.
decided safe
We decided not to use him and be on the safe side.
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.
club improved mark waited wants
We've waited as long as we can wait. Mark wants to be there ... it's very frustrating to the club it hasn't improved more.
august chance dice grinding roll
We're grinding like heck, ... to get a chance to roll the dice in August and September.
chest good morning walking
He's been walking around all morning with his chest puffed out. Good for him.
coming good quality strikes throwing track
He was up with some pitches. He had been throwing quality strikes down. He was coming off some good outings. With young pitchers, the more you get out there, the better your track record.
asks everybody good guy seems special style substance
He's as good as I've had. He's a special competitor. His substance is his style, his style isn't his substance. He's a guy that everybody asks about. They want to know if he's as good as he seems to be. He's better.
good guys sit talk ups
Knuckleball guys are going to have their ups and downs. This was a down for R.A., who's had some good ones for us. We'll sit down and talk about it.
baseman clinic five four game good hank plays third win
Hank put on a clinic at third base. We don't win that game if Hank doesn't have that day today. He made four or five plays that were as good as a third baseman can make.
fun gary good guys
Our guys had a lot of fun tonight. I thought we got good at-bats and Gary (Matthews) had a big one for us.
concern
There's a little concern about who's going to play first.
tough
Eraser is going to make it tough on us.