Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
Daniel Ryan Johnsonis an American professional baseball first baseman and pitcher who is playing for the St. Paul Saints. He has played in most of ten seasons in Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball, but has never held a Major League starting job for an entire season. He is perhaps best known for hitting a dramatic two-out, two-strike home run for the Tampa Bay Rays in the bottom of the ninth inning of the last game of the 2011...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth10 August 1979
CityCoon Rapids, MN
expect rebuilding totally year
It's a totally rebuilding year and we expect to take a lot of lumps.
christmas difficult extra squeeze
It is particularly difficult this Christmas because we have to squeeze in an extra game.
adjusting break carry fly last mentally none pick ship time tired took veterans
It was kind of adjusting on the fly last year. There was not a lot of time to break yourself in, but our veterans were able to pick us up and carry us, or none of us would still be here the way we were going. I don't know if I was mentally tired or what, but it took me too long to adjust. My ship sunk too fast.
generate keeping pitching staff
It's been our pitching staff keeping us in these games. We really haven't been able to generate much offense.
objective recruiting step
The first and most important objective was to step up our recruiting of international students,
boost elite great guys huge percent pitchers
Harden at 40 percent is like most pitchers at 100 percent. When he comes back, it will be a huge boost for us. We have a lot of guys doing great already, but Harden is in an elite group, a superstar.
hitting home
Look at how big he is, ... He should be hitting home runs!
hitting home
Look how big he is. He should be hitting home runs.
clutch count driven gets hit needed number seems time year
It seems like he gets the big hit every time we need them. He's been clutch when we've needed something. I can count a number of times this year when we've needed something and he's driven in runs.
bunch clean sure trash
It's frustrating. We don't want a bunch of trash here. We're always responsible ? make sure we clean up after ourselves.
happen hope
Our hope is it will happen very quickly.
four giving good runs
He pitched about as well as you can in this ballpark. Giving up just four runs here is a good day.
benefits convince deliver ethanol gasoline good guess half people pump sales seem town using
I'd guess the ethanol gasoline makes up probably half of all our sales. It's such a good product, we deliver a lot of it to farms. Once you convince the people in town that there are benefits to using it, they seem to go to that pump all the time.
takes
This team's got 'em in it. It just takes us a while to get 'em out.