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
When you say 'ever' in our game, that better get your attention.
breaking fit maybe pitching work
We want him to keep pitching well, maybe work on his breaking ball. It just doesn't fit for us right now, but it will again.
decide handle strong wants
We're going to let Rudy decide the way he wants to handle this. We'll be there for him. He's a strong man.
again came challenges drive guys test worked
Years ago, that's how it was done. Guys came up as relievers and worked their way into being starters. C.J. has had his challenges as a starter, but I'd like to test drive that again before the end of the season.
background fortunate late somebody
We're fortunate to get somebody of his background this late in the spring.
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.
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.
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We're still talking about what we should do at this point, but I can tell you every possible option has been considered. We've talked about using a four-man rotation. I wouldn't rule out anything.
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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.