Joe Girardi
Joe Girardi
Joseph Elliott Girardiis an American professional baseball manager for the New York Yankees. Formerly a catcher, Girardi played for the Chicago Cubs, the Colorado Rockies, the Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2006, he managed the Florida Marlins and was named the National League Manager of the Year...
lose tough
We can lose some tough games, can't we?
hook pitcher
What you do is let the other pitcher off the hook in a sense.
carry innings whether
We're going to have innings for all our starters, whether we carry 11 or 12 pitchers.
enjoyable hard meetings talk watch
What's really enjoyable to watch is how hard they play. We talk about it every day and we have meetings about how hard we're playing.
change club enjoy fan job manager people player stands watching whether
The only way that as a manager or as a player that we can change that is for our club to play better and for people to enjoy watching our club. My job is to get our club to win, whether there's one fan in the stands or 60,000. People like winners.
dream following guys test
The only way we're going to find out if these guys can play is to test them. These guys are all following a dream and want a chance.
best bring close fans game lose sure
We are going to lose some close games, but fans have to be sure that we'll bring our best game every night.
chance good hurt position scoring walks
Walks have hurt us in one-run losses. When you walk the lead-off man, there is a good chance that he will be in scoring position with one out.
agreed fact good talk
We agreed to talk again. I think the fact they wanted to talk to me is a good sign.
harder lead learn learning pitch
There are times when you have to learn to pitch with the lead. To me learning how to pitch with the lead is harder than learning how to pitch when you're behind. That's what we need to learn how to do.
center tough
We have to get one of our center fielders going. They are young, and it's a tough game, but we have to get them going.
capable days exciting few last seen
We've seen the last few days what he's capable of. That's exciting stuff.
loves ready says
What it says to me is he's ready to play. He loves what he does, and he's ready to play.
bothering confident days extra toe
The extra two days won't hurt. He was confident he could pitch, but the toe has been bothering him a little bit.