Jim Leyland
Jim Leyland
James Richard "Jim" Leylandis a retired Major League Baseball manager. He currently serves as a special assistant to the Detroit Tigers and is the manager of the United States national baseball team...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth15 December 1944
CountryUnited States of America
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This guy was an all-star six months ago. I cannot tell you how happy I am about that.
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I think there's no question we got the right guy for the situation. I've been impressed. I've had good (coaches). I've been lucky throughout my managerial career with that kind of stuff. He's very good at what he does. He came highly recommended by some very bright baseball people. He's quickly become a friend, a nice buffer between me and the pitchers, a good guy to hang out with.
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I think for a young hitter, he uses the whole field as well as any young hitter. I think that's probably the biggest thing, to be honest with you.
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Kenny Rogers made the All-Star team this year. He's 50-some games over .500 lifetime. He brings a lot to this party. I think we got a tremendous deal here.
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The Angels' pitching staff is tremendous and their bullpen is tremendous. I don't think most people are going to wear this pitching staff out. I mean, Shields hasn't given up a hit to a left-handed hitter all year. So they've got all the ingredients. That's why they go to the post-season.
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We got good starting pitching again. There's no such thing as momentum in baseball -- you are only as good as your next pitcher.
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You get in a catch-22. A club like ours that needs to get re-established -- we have to win every one we have a shot to win. But I'm not going to do that at the expense of hurting our pitchers, because in the long run it will blow up in our face.
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Mind-boggling. Just enjoy it. It's not going to continue forever.
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Makes a big difference. Players always make the difference.
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I've always been a big believer that it's just as important to learn to handle success as it is failure.
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We have hit 14 more home runs this year than we did last year, which may be good because it's helped us win some games. But it's not necessarily going to help us, because you start thinking that way and we've got to find all kinds of way to produce runs.
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I just didn't like the way we went about our business. You get some cookies and guys try to hit home runs, and they pop the (expletive) thing up all day long.
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I met five presidents. I had dinner with a president of the United States in the White House. I played golf with a president of the United States. I made money. I mean, when I look at it, I had a unbelievably fabulous career. And I'm extremely grateful.
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He's more of the show mode than the tell mode.