Jim Tracy
Jim Tracy
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He's been terrific. He looks to me like a very good baseball player and a very good number two hitter.
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There's no closer in baseball that's perfect, though we lost one (Gagne) who's as close to being one as there is. Brazoban has done a great job.
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He's an excellent baseball player, that's what he has shown me. He's very intriguing to me.
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No question in my mind. You are talking about people who have great baseball minds and are tireless workers.
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Obviously, he helped make us a good baseball team two years ago.
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The best way to approach a player with his type of ability and talent is to feel like you've developed a type of environment to allow his development to continue on its natural course. With what we have done this winter, we have put this young man in a position to where his natural progression as a Major League Baseball player has a genuine opportunity to take place without heaping any unexpected expectations on him.
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There's a lot of baseball to be played.
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I think a group of players has to understand the type of baseball you have to play to play winning baseball. You have to realize the importance of the intangibles, the little things.
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You want this whole environment to be fun for them. You want the game of baseball to be fun. You can have fun and also be involved in a businesslike manner and continue to utilize the techniques that we have been talking about over the course of these four days. You can get something done and have people going into the clubhouse with a good feeling about themselves.
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They put constant pressure on the other team, ... It's a very difficult style of baseball to compete against.
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A little thing like that can end up winning you a baseball game.
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He's a great athlete and a heck of a baseball player. You've got to like his future.
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I am a firm believer in the fact that a group of guys needs to understand the importance of 90 feet, that it makes the difference in a baseball game. These players will gain a strong realization of that.
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I started to fall in love with the game of baseball when my dad gave me my first set of baseball cards, ... I kept the ones I recognized. The guys I didn't were the ones I put in the spokes of my bicycle with clothes pins.