Mark Connor
Mark Connor
Mark Peter Connoris a former pitching coach for the Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers. Before his coaching career, he was a minor league pitcher from 1971 through 1972 who batted and threw right-handed...
beat fair good
It was a good game. They beat us fair and square.
dealing given kim money
But we had given Kim a lot of money and he was dealing at the time.
thrown
He probably would have thrown more, but I told him to stop.
inspired
He really inspired me to want to write for the cello.
ball came closer game january problem since stuff throwing
He has been lights-out since January and wasn't laboring, so I didn't have a problem with that. He's throwing the ball well. He probably came in here closer to having game stuff than anybody.
along balls breaking continue eight max threw throw today top
I let him throw some breaking balls today for the first time. He threw about eight breaking balls, not max effort, but getting over the top of them with no problem, so we'll continue along those lines.
change fact gets player scared speeds throws
He's the player of the day for me. He was good. I like the fact that he can change speeds and throws strikes. He's not scared out there. He gets after it.
certain expects focus hard looks perfect pitch pitches trying
I want him to focus on making one pitch at a time. Sometimes it looks like he's trying to make 10 pitches and pressing to a certain degree, trying to make the perfect pitch. It's hard to do this with a lot of tension, it's hard to do anything with a lot of tension. He's pressing because he expects a lot out of himself.
baseball command depends far stay
It just depends on his command and how he's feeling, as far as how long he'll stay there. We want him healthy.
ball baltimore couple given good help hopefully liked mechanical rick saw seen shown since
I saw Rick come up with Baltimore in '01 and I liked his stuff. I haven't seen much of him since but he's got a live arm, his ball sinks and he's got a good slider. There's more in there than he's shown and I've given him a couple mechanical things that hopefully will help him.
bad balls coming couple dial fifth hard hit spring turned
I thought he was pretty good. Coming out of spring training, he turned the dial up with his intensity, with his stuff. He made a couple of bad pitches, obviously, but I thought he could have been out of that fifth inning and it's 2-0 ... a couple of balls hit hard and that's about it.
ball good moving people progress throwing time
The ball was moving good today. He was throwing it over the plate. If he does that, he'll get people out. There's progress each time out.
caught concerned concerns home pitches run
No, I'm not concerned about the home runs. We just wanted him to get in his 18 pitches and come out healthy. No concerns at all. He was fine. Besides, the one home run was just a pop-up that got caught in the wind.
start
I don't even want to start to go down that road.