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
continues good improve offensive optimistic players reason
Our young players give us reason to be optimistic for the future. Holliday continues to improve and should become a good offensive player.
bit perfect pull
I think in a perfect world, we bit off a little more than you want to chew, but we were able to pull it off.
battle dealing fix quite
I think he's dealing with it quite professionally. I know he's had enough hearing, 'Keep battling.' I told him how to fix that is to go out and battle and do well.
approach bunch horse manure maybe possible season thrown
I think his back got better but also his approach got better. He went into the season with a lot of different challenges. No. 1, he got called out for maybe possible steroid use, which was a big bunch of horse manure thrown out there.
held mixed outing outside pitches positive runners time took win
I thought he took a very positive first step. He didn't get outside of himself. In the first inning he was mid-20s in pitches, but he battled. He didn't give up a big inning after that. Any time there was traffic, he held runners well. He made pitches when he had to. He mixed his pitches. He held the left-handers very effectively. A big outing for him and a big win for us.
challenges command couple good handled pitches strike zone
I thought he handled a couple of challenges very well. I thought his first 10 pitches were up a bit, and then I thought he got pretty good command of the strike zone down.
confident efficient kim
Kim was very efficient with his pitches. He's so confident right now.
game left message might night road talked todd trip
I talked to Todd (on Sunday) night after the game and left another message for him (Monday) morning. He told me he might not make it on this road trip and laughed.
initially job
I think initially we need for him just to go out there and get outs, then we'll find a job a for him.
changes might offense
Might be some other changes to try and get some offense jump-started.
shape
Mesa's shape is not an issue, never has been.
accepted challenge dealing
We issued a challenge to him and he's accepted it. Now he's working through it and dealing with it -- and doing very well.
chefs hacking three
We were up there hacking like chefs at Benihana's the first three innings.
baggage came cutting farm good guys laid last players success together work
We are a work in progress. These guys had a lot of baggage laid on them last year. We weren't that good last year. There were a lot of young players cutting their teeth, but they also are players who came up together (through the farm system) and had success together. And they want to have more success together.