Joe Maddon
Joe Maddon
Joseph John "Joe" Maddonis an American professional baseball player, coach, and manager who currently manages the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball. Maddon began his coaching career in MLB with the California Angels in 1993 and served under managers Buck Rodgers, Marcel Lachemann, John McNamara, Terry Collins, and Mike Scioscia. He served two stints as interim manager during this time. He managed the Tampa Bay Rays from 2006 through 2014, winning the 2008 American League pennant. After opting out of...
continue feeling good taking
I said you're feeling pretty good because you've been taking your time. Continue to take your time.
continue feeling felt good leave taking
He felt really good, because he was taking his time. So I told him to continue taking your time. I think he's going to leave here (Friday) feeling pretty good about himself.
couple days
We need him where he is for a couple of days and then we'll put him back.
playing
We're not going to back off just because we're playing games.
angry athlete caliber came expect good manner
He got angry in a good way. He had just had enough and he responded in a manner that you'd expect a man and athlete of his caliber to respond. It was so noticeable. When he came off the mound, he had this look. It was really different. He was intense.
feeling good leave looked today
He looked nice. I think he's going to leave today feeling pretty good about himself.
cage good guy hands normally somebody stand stuff uses watch
I don't even have to see stuff like that. I stand by the cage and I watch how somebody uses their hands. And when you get a big person who uses his hands well, they normally have pretty good power. And he's a big guy and uses his hands really well.
command
To command it at 40-something, that's not easy.
ahead bats capable count early good guys hitters pitch several swing threw wear
He just threw a lot of pitches. They will wear you out. You have to get ahead of these guys and make them swing the bats early because they will pitch count you. They are very capable of that. They have several very good hitters in that lineup.
beat close expect game good pitching red win
You have to get good pitching to beat the Red Sox, period. They win a lot of close games. We've got to beat them at their own game sometimes also. When you have pitching like they do, you can't expect to come in here and go toe-to-toe with them and beat them 9-8 all the time. You're just not going to do it.
avoid early good great hear rush wants
We just want to avoid the same kind of early rush back like we did the first time. He's going to tell you it's great. He's going to tell you he wants to play, and that's all good -- it's great to hear that. But we don't want to have him have another setback.
competition prepared shakes statements toward
There's some competition out there, absolutely. We've got to see how it all shakes down toward the end, and I'm not prepared to make any kind of overt statements right now. But there's competition there.
great
You're a great defender, man. With those kind of feet, you should be a great defender.
arguing guess indicate
Apparently, he made the right call. I went out there because Tomas was arguing as vehemently as he was, so I went out. But I guess replays indicate that he was right.