Mark Kotsay
Mark Kotsay
Mark Steven Kotsayis an American professional baseball coach and a former Major League outfielder. In 2016, he will serve as the bench coach for the Oakland Athletics...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth2 December 1975
adjustment bat batting cape college gradual leagues practice summer using wood work
I didn't make the adjustment overnight. Obviously, you work out with a wood bat during batting practice in college and go out to summer leagues like the Cape Cod and the Jayhawk so you actually get 150-200 at-bats using wood. It was kind of a gradual thing for me.
writes
I'm not the one who writes the lineup.
fingers knows last nobody pointing
Everyone in here knows what we went through as a team. Nobody was pointing fingers last year, and nobody's pointing fingers this year.
walk
The is the first day I've been able to walk around and get up out of a chair.
answered came flat foot game half kept neck team
How can a team be flat when you know what you have on the line? We know what this game means. We know what every game means. We're not going to come out flat on Sept. 21 when we're a game and a half out. They came out, they jumped on us, they never let us up. We scored three. They answered back. They kept their foot on our neck and never let us breathe. That's what the game was today.
everybody goes rely remain themselves
For the most part, everybody goes about their business. Everybody handles themselves in a professional manner. All we have to do is go out and play. You don't have to rely on someone else's opinion. It's always different in different clubhouses. We just want to remain consistent.
contend guys room
Even if he doesn't make any moves, the 25 guys in this room are suitable to contend for a championship,
expect great hit shoulder
It hit my tip. I couldn't get it into the web. It was a little more over my right shoulder than I anticipated. It would have been a great play to make. It wasn't necessarily one that I expect to make.
flu sick
It was just a 24-hour flu thing. I was pretty sick on Sunday.
bad
Usually, I don't look that bad out there,
base great guys helps swinging
We know we're top-of-the-order guys and need to get on base. (Eric Chavez) is swinging a great bat. It helps to be on base when he's up.