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The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving.
Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that playing ball is a snap.
On the mound is Randy Jones, the left-hander with the Karl Marx hairdo.
I played Little League. I was a 'pitcher.' But we had a pitching machine, so I was just basically an 'in-infield' shortstop because all I got to do was field bloopers six feet from the plate. I couldn't hit, so that was pretty much my entire job.
You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more
I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was no good.
Baseball is a man maker.
Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.
Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
Well, you know, Pudge Rodriguez, obviously is as good as it gets.
If you're not in the game, you can't hit a home run.
There's so much attached to playing shortstop that you lose your concentration on hitting, unless you're a natural hitter. There's so much to think about in the field, you don't have time to think about what you did at the plate last time. 'How did he get me out?'
I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.
I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound.
Who cares if you bunt for a base hit?
Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.
Sammy Lee is another inbred player
Joe Torre, who switched to first base because he didn't want to go through life as Chicken Catcher Torre. Never got a dinner!
Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.
Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.
If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.
Usually during the regular season, if you're starting pitcher, you're kind of walking back and forth from the clubhouse to the dugout and not really paying attention to what's going on.
Bottom line is, you have to pitch. You want timely hits.
What is the top requirement for a second baseman? A fine shortstop. I am fortunate in having the greatest shortstop in baseball, Luis Aparicio.
I am a better hitter with runners in scoring position.
He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.
I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.
I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.
I think of myself as 'catching' the ball with my bat and letting the pitcher supply the power.
Different styles work for different guys ... If you can handle shortstop and hit, teams will find a way to pencil you into the lineup.
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
I'm a teammate guy, so whatever I can do to help my team to win like I have the past two years, that's what I want to do. If it takes for me to play first base, third base, right field, I just want to win the game.
I don't think there's a position I couldn't play on this field.
A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.
The game has never seen a better catcher than YADIER MOLINA.
What's the deal with Johnny Damon? He can't hit. He can't catch. He can't throw. He's sort of the five-tool guy ... without any of the tools!
He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.
Good afternoon ... My name is Lucy ... I'm going to be your right-fielder ... Our special today is a misjudged fly-ball. We also have a nice bobbled ground ball and an exellent late throw to the infield ... I'll be back in a moment to take your order.
To reach a ball he has never reached before, to extend himself to the very limits of his range, and then a step farther, this is the shortstop's dream.
There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
If someone from Germany or somewhere, who had no idea what baseball was, saw Kruk play, he'd wonder what the beer truck driver was doing playing first base.
Pitching is a priority.
Baseball is a team game.
Mark (McGwire) is the man.
I do my job on the mound and then do what I can at the plate, always working on helping the team anyway I can.
A baseball manager is a necessary evil.
If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.
What the Yankees need is a second base coach.
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game.
I don't know anything about baseball.
I'm trying to put together quality at-bats and hit the ball hard somewhere.
Even the slowest guy can go from first to third and help win a ballgame.
Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.
The biggest thing I want is for the hitter coming up behind me to get a good pitch to hit.
In baseball, you don't know nothing.
You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game.
Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.
The overall thinking of the shortstop covers the overall context of the ballgame. You have to know the count they'll hit-and-run on. You're thinking of the speed, not only of the runner at first base, but the runner at the plate. You have to know how fast the pitcher is on a particular day.
This guy don't come to the ballpark to beat you. He comes to beat you bad. This (Jackie) Robinson, he plays a ton.
Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes.
I'm not a big baseball fan, to be honest.
I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.
For hitter or pitcher, rookie or veteran, baseball has long been defined by failure rather than success, the old a-.300-hitter-gets-out-7-times-in-10-at-bats truism. Dealing with and managing failure is an essential - some would say the essential - part of the job description.
Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop.
I try to execute pitches and get guys out.
Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.
I'm in the major league now.
Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.
Chipper Jones will be in the Hall of Fame. The #1 overall pick in the 1990 draft, Chipper will be remembered as the greatest switch-hitting third baseman in baseball history.
When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.
Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.
Your obligation as a base runner is to try and be safe within the rules. OK?
Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
A slumpbuster is when you have to take one for the team. It's finding the biggest, nastiest, fattest broad, and you put the wood to her to come out of your slump. Also known as 'jumping on a grenade for the team'.
You know what they say about big hitters ... the woods are full of them.
If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.
Performances will determine who actually ends up being the eighth-inning guy.
Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
Life's too short to sit on the bench, so get in there and pitch the game.
Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.
He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.
Analyzing baseball yields many numbers of interest and value. Yet far and away- far, far and away- the most critical number in all of baseball is 3: the three outs that define an inning. Until the third out, anything is possible; after it, nothing is. [Eric Walker]
The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"
There's a deep fly ball ... Winfield goes back, back ... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base.
You can't hit it out of the park if you're not at the plate
Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.
I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.
The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.
(Al) Lopez is a great believer in speed and hustle, in the go-go style of baseball. No other manager is so determined a foe of stodgy baseball, lack of hustle and slipshod practices and so powerful an advocate of the unexpected.