Phil Garner
Phil Garner
Philip Mason Garneris an American former baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as an infielder with the Oakland Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants from 1973 to 1988. He was manager of the Astros from July 14, 2004 to August 27, 2007, leading Houston to a World Series appearance in 2005...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth30 April 1949
CityJefferson City, TN
expect eye good hit home runs strength
I don't think his strength is there. To expect him to hit home runs would be optimistic. He still has a good eye at the plate. He still has quickness.
changed confident determined last playing wants
I don't think he's much changed from last year. He's a very confident player. I just think he's more determined now because he wants more playing time.
anyone
If anyone else is running, Nunez probably makes that play,
incentive plenty
I don't think we need any more incentive than we already have. We're an organization that has never been to the World Series. That's plenty of incentive right there.
today
I don't think it was Weaver today as much as it was us,
good prudent rocket sure tomorrow wait
I don't think it would be prudent on our part to wait to see what's going to happen. You try to make sure if we started tomorrow if Rocket wasn't here, you'd feel like you'd have a good team.
best good players position terms three
For us, it's the best one out of three right now. It doesn't get any easier. We're in good position in terms of our pitching, our players and everything. But the job's still got to get done.
best three
For us, it's the best one out of three now. It doesn't get any easier.
bit close dance suffering
For us it's long suffering -- 44 years of getting close and not getting to the big dance has been a little bit frustrating.
close dance everybody involved wonderful
For us, 44 years of getting close and not getting to the big dance has been frustrating, ... So this is a wonderful accomplishment for our city, for our organization, everybody that's been involved in it.
care worry
If we take care of our business, we don't have to worry about the other teams, what they're doing.
ability drive drives expecting hits home hope pop runs
He should give us some pop in the lineup and the ability to drive in some runs. We hope he drives in 100 runs and hits 30 home runs. That's what we're expecting from him.
dead fastball
He's hot. We all know he's a dead fastball hitter.
question shoulder
His shoulder is impaired, there's no question about that from anybody. But definitely, you can make too much of what you see or don't see today.