Ron Guidry
Ron Guidry
Ronald Ames Guidry, nicknamed "Louisiana Lightning" and "Gator", is a former Major League Baseballleft-handed pitcher. He played his entire 14-year baseball career for the New York Yankees of the American League, from 1975 through 1988. Guidry was also the pitching coach of the Yankees from 2006 to 2007...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth28 August 1950
CityLafayette, LA
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He'd be a great addition to our pitching staff, and if I get a chance to talk to him, I'm sure I'll talk to him, ... Maybe I'll give him a couple bowls of gumbo.
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He'd be a great addition to the pitching staff here, ... a couple of bowls of gumbo.
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He impressed me so much. I've got a lot of respect for him, and he earned a lot from me. He knew he had to go down and pitch on a regular basis.
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I hope I can get in the door with that, being left-handed and pitching here, being pretty successful. I've talked to him two or three times the last two or three days. He's been fun to talk to.
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That's the one pitch he needs to master better than he's thrown it here.
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It was no secret when I had several chances to leave as a free agent, I never chose to go anywhere, ... I never envisioned there was any place better to play than in New York. I can't go back and play, but to go back in a capacity as a pitching coach and become part of the organization again, it's a great honor and a great challenge. I think it's going to be fun.
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I took this job because I was confident in my own ability and knowledge of pitching to do it. I would never have left home to take a minor-league job, but I also didn't want to get too old and one day say I never tried it.
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I know it's a hard job, and a lot rides on that job, but I've got a lot of help around here. There's so much pitching talent, like Mel and Kerrigan, the guys that are in here. They're all going to help you. They're not going to overload you and let you sink by yourself.
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The biggest thing he would tell you is you have to throw the ball over the plate, ... If you can't throw the ball over the plate, you can't pitch in the big leagues.
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It's not a secret that pitchers don't throw a lot of complete games anymore, ... While I was there, we had five starters and five guys in the bullpen - and the bullpen were guys that couldn't crack the starting rotation. ... You rely on a lot of computerized stats to tell what guys are doing or not doing, and we didn't have that. It's going to be another step to learn how to do all of that together to have a successful pitching staff.
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People say he struggled. But I'll take five guys like him who struggle. Randy is still one of the best pitchers in baseball.
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Coming inside is a big part of his repertoire. He just couldn't get it in there.
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I spoke to my family about it, and they said 'Maybe you should give it a shot before you get too old,' ... I'd been thinking about it, and if you're going to do something, as far as I was concerned you should do it while you're still kind of young.
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I'm probably going to have to lean on a lot of people, ... I've spoken to Joe, and he has a real good background with pitching. I'm going to look to him for a lot of help. ... I have some ideas, but I'll talk to a lot of people to make sure my ideas are sound.