Jeff Conine
Jeff Conine
Jeffrey Guy Conineis a former Major League Baseball player who played 17 seasons with six teams primarily as an outfielder. An inaugural member of the Florida Marlins who was with the franchise for both of its World Series titles, he earned the title Mr. Marlin for his significant history with the club, and his ties to South Florida...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth27 June 1966
classified collection guys takes time together
It's disappointing and frustrating. Any time you get a collection of guys like this together and know you have what it takes to make the postseason and you don't, it's classified as a disappointment.
balance bats effective kept obviously square stuff
A lot of first-pitch strikes, he kept you off balance with a lot of off-speed stuff after fastballs. Obviously that was effective because we didn't get too many square bats on the ball.
text
B-Rob was text messaging me every hour, 'Come on back, buddy.
encouraged fact hope next support sure team together
You sure hope so, ... You got to hope and feel encouraged by the fact that, if we keep this team together and play as excitingly as we have next year, that they'll come out to support us.
accepted four good indication played positions quite time
In 2001, I played four different positions and I had a really good time doing it. I accepted it as a challenge. Every indication is I'll be out there quite a lot.
explain seems
You can't explain it. It just seems to happen.
corner fastball night outside
It's all about location. He located his fastball on the outside corner all night long.
addressing brought hard lead management mind needs reasons
I take that very seriously. I think management, that's one of the reasons that they brought me back. They know I am going to play hard and lead by example. If there is something that needs to be addressed, I don't mind addressing it.
mistakes mph pinpoint throwing
He doesn't give you many mistakes to hit. It was just command. He was not throwing 95 mph at you. It was just pinpoint control.
happened hug
It happened as we were going out on the field. Give him a hug and... got to go play now.
example hits perfect pitcher threw
He threw a lot of fastballs and just put them right where he wanted them. It's a perfect example of when a pitcher hits his spots, he's going to be successful.
field hard normal
That field is hard as a rock, and it's not the normal field that we play on,
dugout giving hitting instead maybe
We're in the dugout hitting instead of maybe giving up another run,
chances win
We had chances to win and we didn't do it. Now we're going to have to win them all, I think.