Matt Galante
Matt Galante
Matthew Joseph Galanteis a former minor League baseball infielder and Major League coach and acting manager. The 5 ft 6 in, 157 lbGalante attended St. John's University and was selected as the 833rd and final pick of the 1966 Major League Baseball draft by the New York Yankees...
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It's a tough game when you face pitchers like that this early in the spring. Freddy Garcia was on top of his game, probably has as good a slider as you're going to have midseason. Betancourt came in and was throwing real well. Rodriguez finished up. It's tough. It's (four) quality Major League pitchers and we got two hits. Tough to win games like that.
exactly sure
They told me ... well, I'm not exactly sure how it was chosen.
camp game innings pick pitch point realized second starters throwing trying worry
He's been in big-league camp and he's been throwing a little more than the other guys. He can probably give us more innings at this point than most of the guys. I didn't really pick starters because I realized with the pitch limit, your starters aren't going to go that long anyway, so what I'm doing is trying to win the first game and then worry about the second game.
asked fantastic later
I asked him to do this and see if this is what he wanted to do later on, and he's just done a fantastic job.
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We quickly learned each player would have to qualify for an Italian passport, which meant some of them had to go back in their heritage as far as we could go.
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We proved to the people of Italy and to the Italian federation that we can play at this level. We can play with the big boys.