Rafael Chaves
Rafael Chaves
Rafael Chaveswas the pitching coach of the Seattle Mariners in 2006 and 2007. Chaves was also the pitching coach for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees, the New York Yankees' Triple A team. He was the Los Angeles Dodgers minor pitching coordinator from 2008-2013 and a special assistant for player personnel in 2014. On October 7, 2014, he was hired by the Philadelphia Phillies to become a pitching coordinator for them...
nails pitcher
I thought he was the pitcher he can be during those innings. He was nails after the beginning.
brought coming guy successes throwing
He did OK, but he wasn't throwing great. Still, with his successes in the past, you want to have a guy like him if you can. So we brought him in and he's throwing much better now. He's coming around.
department discuss medical
I don't want to discuss anything that has to do with Felix. I would like the medical department to discuss that with you guys.
anybody fact pain though wants
We don't need anybody to be a hero. We need them to be healthy. We need him to tell us when something like that comes up. You like the fact that he wants to play though pain and go out and pitch. But we'd like him to tell us about something like this.
decisions hardest pitching
There are decisions we have to make that we don't like a bit. This was the hardest thing I've had to do. I was his first pitching coach.