Roy Halladay
Roy Halladay
Harry Leroy "Roy" Halladay III, nicknamed "Doc", is an American former professional baseball player who pitched in Major League Baseball for the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies between 1998 and 2013. His nickname, coined by Toronto Blue Jays announcer Tom Cheek, is a reference to Wild West gunslinger "Doc" Holliday...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth14 May 1977
CityDenver, CO
CountryUnited States of America
Early on, we thought it was going to go faster than it did. It still shows up in X-rays.
It was strange how similar his injury and mine were,
Orlando is probably the best second baseman I've ever played with. Losing somebody like that always stings a little. But, especially in our division, you have to be able to hit.
I could see the light line, it was evident from the X-rays, ... I recognized it right away.
That's always been a question for debate. I think pitchers never like to go back-to-back facing teams but that hitters sometimes feel like they have a better idea of what they're going to see.
Just in talking to (Burnett), he feels like he's in a better situation now as far as teammates and things like that and that makes it a lot easier. I think that's going to help him.
It was nice, especially for him. We're pretty similar and it was good to be able to tell him what we have here and to have a couple guys on a staff that you get along with well is nice. I was excited about it just to have a chance to be involved with that process.
Hopefully it's something that we have a chance to get used to in the future. It's fun and hopefully that's something that will continue this year and we can get that excitement in here for the long term.
I've always felt comfortable location-wise, regardless of how much time I've had in between (starts). It's just fun to go out and compete again. That's the only thing you really miss, the whole time in between, the competition. I felt great, real happy the whole time out. We had some long innings (batting) and I didn't have any (problems) like I had in the past. I'm excited going forward, threw 90 pitches and felt good the whole time.
It's the chance to be here for another five years that I didn't want to pass up.
It stopped a big inning. It kept us in striking distance and gave us a chance to pile up some runs.
Any time we did any of those running exercises, it was obviously the toughest part for me. Simulated games later on got a little tough.
In the off-season J.P. talked with me about what the organization wanted to do and it's come full circle. J.P. was very honest and very truthful and they exceeded a lot of our expectations of getting guys that we got. I think I would have been interested no matter what but to have a true chance of winning, it makes it a lot better.
There's a lot of interesting stuff in there.