Dusty Baker
Dusty Baker
Johnnie B. "Dusty" Baker, Jr.is an American Major League Baseball manager and former player. He is currently the manager for the Washington Nationals. He enjoyed a 19-year career as a hard-hitting outfielder, primarily with the Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers. He helped the Dodgers to pennants in 1977 and 1978 and to the championship in 1981. He then enjoyed a 20-year career as a manager with the San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, and now Washington Nationals. He...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth15 June 1949
CityRiverside, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I'm probably more bewildered than I am embarrassed,
You're always worried about injuries. But I can remind Carlos all I want to. When you get out there and Cuba or whoever they're playing starts banging him around pretty good, I think he'll forget exactly what I told him. That's how it is.
He's done well for me. What he's done has excited me. He's going to the fall league and was thinking about Puerto Rico.
I think that's wrong because that way you're placing blame on one department,
He struggled early on and made a couple of young mistakes, ... The last two innings, the sixth and seventh, were when he threw the best.
Marshall has shown control and poise. He has a very good delivery, and it looks like he has three pitches he can control pretty good. He doesn't seem in awe of being here. I'm very impressed.
You wish they weren't so passionate sometimes. It's hot out there. It's summertime. That's when people lose their tempers.
Hopefully, they don't have me come over and clean it up.
It takes awhile. I'm glad all these guys are here. They've been doing a lot of drills. They've been doing a lot of things. You've got verbal direction instructions to each other. ... It's a unit you want to get together as quickly as possible, especially on defense.
I have three years, ... I don't have anything to do with the other 100 or something years. That's how I look at it. It's not a burden to me. I have three years and I'm hoping to turn it around in year No. 4.
It seems like we have trouble keeping them in the ballpark. If we could keep them in the ballpark, it'd be different.
It is what it is. Hope it comes out well and hope it's not anything serious.
It was only appropriate that we won on Sandberg's day, ... It was quite a ceremony and we played well.
It's easier to teach them to pull than use the whole field.