Matt Gifford

Matt Gifford
gone list wrong
It was a long list of, 'Who do you pick?' I don't think we could have gone wrong with any of those guys.
hard heard
I had heard Tulsa had some hard throwers.
louis sports town
If St. Louis is 1A (as a sports town in Missouri), Springfield is 1B.
accurate definitely either exact miss percent throwing
It's definitely not an exact science. We're probably right 85, 90 percent of the time. It's about as accurate as they come, and we miss pitches. Either way, you get the idea he's throwing gas. That's what you want to know.
build expectation finished game last start year
We need to start Game 1 where we finished off Game 70 and not let anything go backward. More than anything, it's my expectation we would do everything we did last year that was possible. But we have to build on that. We have to get better.