Troy Percival
Troy Percival
Troy Eugene Percivalis a former Major League Baseball pitcher and current head coach at UC Riverside. He gained fame as a closer. During a 14-year baseball career, he pitched from 1995–2009 for four different teams, pitching primarily with the California/Anaheim Angels. He was also an integral part of that franchise's 2002 World Series championship team. Percival currently ranks 10th in career saves...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth9 August 1969
CityFontana, CA
faith knows puts
He's very even-keeled. He knows the game. He puts faith in his players. He doesn't try to do too much.
healing hopes hoping lifting point start tired
I don't want to get my hopes up too high, but I'm just hoping that Dr. Yocum will tell me that it's healing up to a point where I can start lifting weights. I'm tired of running. That's all I've been doing.
basically liked looked pattern rehab scar start strength throwing tissue
He's not going to want to do any surgery. He liked the way the scar tissue looked to be healing. The strength was coming, so I'm basically in a pattern where I can start doing some rehab stuff, some strengthening stuff, and then start throwing in December. Then we'll go from there.
He's not going to want to do any surgery.
clutch year
He's Mr. Clutch. He's been Mr. Clutch for us all year long.
arms believe camp good guys help
I believe I can. That's not my decision. There's a lot of good arms here in camp and a lot of guys who can help the squad. I'm just going to go out and show them what I've got and take it from there.
deserved felt sure team
I felt that the team deserved that effort. And just for me, personally, I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if I didn't try, if I didn't come and know for sure that it wasn't going to work.
chance either heal minimum miss next sit surgery year
If I have surgery and I have to sit out next year, I'd be done. Either he'll say this is going to heal up enough to pitch, or we're going to have to do surgery ù which I don't want to do. With surgery, I have no chance and I'll miss all next year because it's a minimum of 12 months.
days fourth might third throwing
About every third or fourth day, I feel like I can be out there and throw. Not back-to-back days right now, but that might come by the end of spring. I'm throwing it at 100 percent; it's just not going at 100 percent. That's frustrating.
game played year
It's just the way we've played the game all year long,
asked couple days early hoping might pitches point problems recover start takes throwing thrown time turn until
It's not doing bad. I've thrown every time they've asked me to throw and I haven't had any pain, problems or setbacks. I didn't start throwing until early January, and it's OK. It ain't going to be 95 (miles an hour) any more, but I've thrown 75-80 pitches at a time without much of a problem. It just takes me a couple of days to recover. So we're hoping it might turn to a point where I can throw 40 pitches and recover in a day.
came difficult forward good knew looking physically reality stop
It's not difficult (to stop pitching), because I just physically can't do it. That's not something I was looking forward to, but I knew that was a pretty good reality before I came down here.
love respect uniform watching
I've got a lot of respect for those guys. That's a lot of writing and lot of watching games. It's baseball, and I love watching it, but I love being in uniform more.
ball everyday firing friday gotten looks normal picking ready start
It's doing a lot better than it was. I'm back to normal everyday stuff. I haven't gotten to where I think I'm comfortable enough to start picking up a ball and start chucking it yet, but I still have the whole offseason to get that ready and come firing in the spring. I'll know a lot more on Friday when Dr. Yocum looks at it.