David Eckstein
David Eckstein
David Mark Ecksteinis a retired American professional baseball player who was an infielder in Major League Baseball for ten seasons. He played college baseball for the University of Florida, and has played professionally for the Anaheim Angels, St. Louis Cardinals, Toronto Blue Jays, Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres. Eckstein won the 2006 World Series Most Valuable Player Award...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth20 January 1975
CitySanford, FL
great hope
I hope not. Because if it does, you're in trouble. He's got some great stuff.
favorite love point time
I know that at some point in time it's going to be on. I love it, it's one of my favorite plays.
base thrilled walk
I'm thrilled that they can't potentially walk him. There's no base to put him.
double key matter plays turn winning
Double plays are key to winning championships, ... No matter the situation, we try to turn everything.
handle letting
Personally, I can handle myself after this, ... but I feel disappointed in letting them down.
bunch develop ends force guys playing team time walk
The thing you don't do is come to a new team and force yourself on people. We walk in here as a bunch of guys but over time we're going to develop into a team. It's going to be interesting to see how it ends up playing out.
early last outing pressure spring threw throughout training
Anyone, you want to try and put pressure on him as early as possible. He threw very well throughout Spring Training -- his last outing was his toughest.
allowed balls credit double early ground needed preached sharp spring
It's something we preached from Day 1 (of spring training). But you've got to give a lot of credit to Mulder. He wasn't sharp early on and allowed some runners, but then he got the ground balls he needed for the double plays.
hit puts sit team
He'll sit there and go, 'Get on base, I'll hit you in. He puts this team on himself.
base front guys key
Getting guys on base in front of the big guys, that's the key to this club.
game half last week
There will be no letup. We have a week and a half left. We're going to play every game hard, as you can tell by the last two nights.
baseball challenged deserve earn emphasized fair might owed privilege uniform warned wear wearing
I told them baseball owed them nothing and wasn't a fair game. I emphasized what a privilege that it is to wear a uniform every day. I challenged them to do something to earn and deserve the right to wear a uniform. I warned them that if they didn't, they might not be wearing one.
definitely eliminate nice run score
It's nice to show that we can score a run off him, but it would have been better to tie. It's definitely something that we've just got to keep battling. If we do our job, we can eliminate him so he doesn't have to come in the game.
ball hit time
Right in that time of day if you hit the ball right there, you can't see it,