Clint Hurdle
Clint Hurdle
Clinton Merrick Hurdleis an American former professional baseball outfielder and current manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball. Hurdle played in MLB for the Kansas City Royals, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, and St. Louis Cardinals, and has also managed for the Colorado Rockies...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth30 July 1957
CityBig Rapids, MI
created depth happened living people prepared three winter
We created depth all winter long to be prepared if something like this arises. Three years ago this happened and we were in a shambles. You never want to see people injured, but it is part of the game. You have to live with it. If you have depth, living with it can be a easier.
good hat people saying season time tip year
Every year at this time of the season you tip your hat to them. If you ever get people saying that about your organization you are in good shape.
attention focus pay start
Everything will start to come into focus and we will pay more attention to detail.
everybody game gave needed sunny
Everybody thought it was a stab and something unique. Sunny showed us a little something today, and in a game we needed some length, BK gave it to us.
everybody mound today took
Everybody that took the mound today was really good.
added forward hoping men moving positive situation steps team took value
Every team that added something is hoping that something pops. Their situation is not more removed than ours. We are moving forward with men that showed some value and took positive steps for us.
anywhere communication gotten managing situation word
Communication and managing crisis, and I use that word loosely, that is gotten with experience. I just think it would be very difficult, and it's a very challenging situation to be in, to never have done it anywhere before and have to do it at this level.
humanistic nobody race
The race is on, but you have to take a humanistic approach. Nobody is under a magnifying glass. We just want them to go out and pitch.
pitch
We will pitch to him only when we feel it's practical.
hand sideways
We had a hand in about everything that went sideways on us.
club guys
What was important to me is the way the guys who didn't make the club performed.
deal whatever
Whatever we do, we won't make a big deal out of it.
create game moved tried
We tried to create some game situations, and he moved around pretty well.
angry asked coming complain maybe might mound realized ring seemed series surprised turned warming watch
What surprised me was when he went out to the mound with a watch on and was, like, surprised when we asked him to take it off. I thought maybe he got a World Series ring and a World Series watch, so that's why he seemed to be angry about that. There was a little glare coming off of it. We don't complain about much here, but at times when he turned his wrist, you could see a glare warming up. Obviously, it wasn't very expensive, the way he flung it into the dugout. Then I realized it might not have been a World Series watch.