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
eyes guys league looking reflection talk walk
It's up to them now to go down and be a reflection of this camp. I told them eyes will be on them. A lot of guys down there will be looking at how they walk and how they talk once they've been in a big league camp.
fifth game leaving motivate people pitcher
Leaving a game in the fifth inning I wouldn't think would make any pitcher happy, ... Sometimes different things will motivate people different ways.
heart held last players took
All the players took to heart the conversations that were held at the end of last season.
baseball coming good shape themselves
They all got themselves in real good baseball shape coming in. That's what you like to see the most.
age bond relative special time
The bond is special between a father, especially relative to his father's age and the time (in his life),
bad ball baseball double good hit lets played run three
You've got a double-play ball if he catches it or lets it go. Then Tucker's ball hit his foot. If it was a double play, we wouldn't have run into all that other trouble. We had one bad inning in three days. We played good baseball here.
improvement
There was some improvement, but we need some more improvement.
adversity guys overcame
These guys overcame adversity. They persevered through it all.
ball bigger confidence giving opening
I want him to know that I have the confidence in him by giving him the ball opening day. I can't make a bigger statement.
ball bigger certain coach confidence giving next opening players statement time
It's Jason's time to take the next step, and sometimes when players can't get to certain places, it's up to a coach to take them there. I want him to know going in that I've got the confidence in him to do that. By giving him the ball Opening Day, I can't make a bigger statement than that.
attention brought maybe talk
It was kind of brought to my attention that maybe (Holliday) didn't. We'll talk about it.
command threw
(Day's) command was poor. His changeup was too hard. He threw a lot of changeups that were not squaring up.
time work
I'm going to give him some time to work out of it.
guys time
It's a big pick-me-up. Some guys showed up big time tonight.