Ned Yost
Ned Yost
Edgar Frederick "Ned" Yost IIIis a former Major League Baseball catcher and current manager of the Kansas City Royals. He previously managed the Milwaukee Brewers, and played for the Brewers, Texas Rangers, and Montreal Expos...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth19 August 1955
CityEureka, CA
bases picking playing running third
We're playing pretty sound, fundamentally. We're going from first to third when we need to. We're picking up big runs. We're running the bases good. We're doing a lot of little things right.
battle behind continue either fall far mark race time trying
There are things we're still trying to accomplish. The .500 mark is one of them, and to continue to battle in the wild-card race is one of them. You can't fall too far behind in either one of those at this time of year.
bring extra five games pitching player problems run short turn
We're a player short for a day or two because of Branyan. We thought it was more important to have an extra player on the bench. It's only for, what, five games because we're off Monday. And if we run into pitching problems we can always turn right around and bring someone up.
far felt
We didn't want to get too far away from our goals. We felt we had to have something go right.
turn
We haven't pitched very well. But those things turn around.
We haven't had much of a need for a long guy.
behind everybody goes
We're all behind him. Everybody goes through things like that.
guys settled
We're a little more settled this year. We have a better idea of when guys are going to pitch. We have a plan.
defense
If you give up just one run, the game's over if you don't score. When it's 11-0, it's everything, pitching, defense and hitting.
attack guy needed order stay
I just told him he really needed to stay on the attack and get after this guy in order for it to happen.
atlanta bunch john remember throw time warming
I just remember the first time we went through it in Atlanta with a bunch of young guys, in 1991. John Smoltz would be warming up and it would be like he was going to throw up. How's he going to get through the first inning?
I look at it as a big-picture scenario,
guys heart knew matter time
I know these guys will play with a lot of heart and a lot of pride. I knew it was matter of time before we got it going again.
knew
I knew it was something we had to do,