John Gibbons
John Gibbons
John Michael Gibbonsis an American former professional baseball player and the current manager of the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball. Gibbons briefly played in the Major Leagues as a catcher with the New York Mets, in the mid-1980s...
clutch few guy past watch
You watch Ortiz over the past few years and there is not a more clutch guy in the game.
couple pick ready sure understand weeks
If I understand correctly, it'll be a couple weeks before they even want him to pick up a ball. That's going to set him back there. We'll make sure he's ready to go.
couple good guys searching work
We'll work that out. We've got a good bullpen. We've got a couple guys searching right now, but we'll need them and they'll be fine.
months
We were raving about him two months ago.
fastball gets great roll towers
Towers and McClung pitched great, ... (Towers) has been on a roll and (McClung) can overpower you with his fastball and when he gets his curveball over he's tough. He has a great arm.
fastball gets great roll towers
Towers and McClung pitched great. (Towers) has been on a roll and (McClung) can overpower you with his fastball and when he gets his curveball over he's tough. He has a great arm.
good offence shape
We're in good shape because our offence has been very good at this point.
call days fort hold job win year
We're going to need them. There are going to be days in the year we are going to have to call on them to do the job and hold the fort so we can try to win a game. They did that today.
bat hoping spark
We're hoping he can give us a little spark with his bat when Gregg Zaun doesn't play. He's part of the future.
keeps picked plate
When he's on, he keeps you off-balance. He picked the plate apart.
league productive prove record timing tough track turn year
What we want him to do is get up there and turn it lose, ... He has a track record to prove he's a productive big league hitter. It's been a tough year for him. I think his timing is back.
difference offence start
What a difference offence makes. That didn't start out too well, down 4-0. If we didn't have offence, we don't come back in that game.
change couple course few guys looking starts until
We like a couple guys down there in Triple-A that can come up and do that job. We're not looking at it as a one-time deal. Of course if the guy comes up and struggles, we may change that. But we want the guy to make a few starts until A.J. is ready.
almost expect guys hoping knew list needed targeted wish
We knew what we needed to do to improve. We targeted some guys and we were hoping to get one or two of them. You never expect to get your whole wish list and we almost did that.