150 ordspråk av Dave Duncan
Dave Duncan
Reyes needs to pitch innings. He needs to show us he can go out there consistently. Hopefully, he'll get 180 innings.
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Shows you how talented he is. Last year he won 15 games ... re-establishing himself,
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Sometimes I dump stuff, sometimes I add.
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Sometimes that's what happens. Used in another role, given a different opportunity - a pitcher finds his strength.
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That ball was down and away, off the plate. He kind of stuck his bat out there.
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That gives him time to get some treatment and also throw in the bullpen prior to starting a game.
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The expectations were probably unrealistic. He was looked at under the microscope. ... It's lot of pressure on him because everybody thinks that he's getting special favors because he's the son of a coach. In reality, it's just the opposite. People are careful not to give the impression they are doing something special for him.
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The objective is to get (Looper) 100 percent. We don't expect it's going to take that long.
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The only thing I want to pay attention to is his confidence. Knowing Matt Morris, I don't think he's going to lose confidence and not feel like he can go out and compete against anybody.
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The question answers itself. For there to just be a debate tells you something about the depth of our starting pitching. I think you could start any one of our five guys. But we're only going to use four. Everybody has the right to second-guess. That's part of it. Part of the decision is what you know about the person and the situation. At the same time, you try to maintain as much depth as you can.
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The way we've played the last three months hasn't been up to our capabilities, ... We have higher expectations with the players we have. We should be performing better.
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There's an aura that surrounds certain guys, whether it's truth or fiction I don't know, but it's the way they're perceived by the opposition,
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There's no getting around it until you get into the flow of things, especially as a reliever, ... It takes at least once to get out there and slow down.
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There's no getting around it until you get into the flow of things, especially as a reliever. It takes at least once to get out there and slow down.
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These guys are going to have to step up and be the pitchers they were the majority of the season for us to have a successful postseason,
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