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
bearing fruits growing
We have had growing pains, but we are now bearing the fruits of that.
bench guys
We have always been big on guys on the bench being versatile.
fruits happen hard reap worked year
We have worked hard this year to get better. That has started to happen and we want (the players) to reap the fruits of their hard work.
body given laugh parts past road
We're not going to laugh at a 5-4 road trip. We've had times in the past we would have given body parts for a 5-4 road trip.
inventory land last rookies sent stay took wave
We're not going to continually put 20 rookies out there. That's why we took the inventory that we took the last two years to find out what we had, and find a wave that would land and stay on beach, not be sent back out to the sea.
continues emerge games kinds lucky signature
Those kinds of games are signature games. You're lucky if you have one of them in your career. Matty continues to emerge as an up-and-coming professional hitter.
games lucky signature
Those kind of games are signature games. You're lucky if you have one of them in your career.
help hurt opportunity rest weeks
Two weeks of rest is not going to hurt him. It may help him, because it will give him the opportunity to relax.
certain game team whether
Whether it's an old team or a young team, ... there's a certain way the game has to be played.
catching depth hard liked looking receiving work
We don't know him as well as the Padres do yet, but we've always liked him from the other side, catching and receiving the ball. Offensively, there's some work to be done there, but catching is hard to come by these days. Everybody's looking for it right now. We like the depth we have.
fall winter
We'll see how the winter goes, but he could fall into that,
advantage
We didn't take advantage of opportunities because we really didn't have any.
confidence good guys helps starting
We are new at this. We are starting to like it. We need to keep it going. Each one is a confidence builder. Each one helps the guys feel they belong. Guys each get a chance, and when they perform, they feel good about themselves.
bitter bridge brought five forward gap group guys hung large moving players rather six steps taken taste took woods
We are moving forward with a large group of players rather than having five or six guys we brought in to bridge a gap for a year. We had our first taste of the process. The first two months, it was a very bitter taste. We took a lot of ridicule. But we hung together. We are not out of the woods yet, but we've taken steps forward.