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When I'm at bat, I'm in scoring position.
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Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more
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The game has never seen a better catcher than YADIER MOLINA.
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I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.
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My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.
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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.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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I don't think there's a position I couldn't play on this field.
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Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.
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Oh, honey, if he swung batter-batter for my team, I'd be all over that in a heartbeat.
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He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.
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He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.
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Joe Torre, who switched to first base because he didn't want to go through life as Chicken Catcher Torre. Never got a dinner!
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Putting Henry at shortstop - it was like taking a painting that had been shoved in a closet and hanging it in the ideal spot. You instantly forgot what the room had looked like before.
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Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.
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There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.
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Good stockbrokers are a dime a dozen, but good shortstops are hard to find.
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You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.
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You've just got to keep playing hard. You have to remember that you are not just playing for the Twins. There are other teams out there. If anybody needs a shortstop they are going to come knocking on the door. So, you just have to be ready at all times.
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I don't know anything about baseball.
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I love talking about baserunning.
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A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of unprintable things, but no team gets very far without one.
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Who is his manager? Milton Bradley.
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Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.
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Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup.
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His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.
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You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.
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Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.
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He slides into second with a stand up double.
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I'm not a big baseball fan, to be honest.
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Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.
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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.
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You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.
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It's a base hit on the error by Roberts.
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What the Yankees need is a second base coach.
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I'm in the major league now.
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There's a deep fly ball ... Winfield goes back, back ... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base.
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It is the life-affirming genius of baseball that the short can pummel the tall, the rotund can make fools of the sleek, and no matter how far down you find yourself in the bottom of the ninth you can always pull out a miracle.
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We were mighty short of infielders in those days
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Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!
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Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.
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It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game.
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I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed ... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends.
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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.
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To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.
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When he asked if I would like to try second base, I thought, Hey, get me in the lineup.
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I jack, I rob, I sin. Aw man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen
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A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers.
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The most overrated underrated player in baseball.
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The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
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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.
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Baseball is a man maker.
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If you can pick up a ground ball you'll play for any team you want.
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You can't hit it out of the park if you're not at the plate
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Do either of you even play baseball?
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When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.
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Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
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I think of myself as 'catching' the ball with my bat and letting the pitcher supply the power.
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A pitcher is not a ballplayer.
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I'm just a beat up old third baseman. I'm just a small part of a wonderful game that is a tremendous part of America today.
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You could have the bases loaded, and you bring up the best pinch-hitter in the world to pinch hit, he hits into a double play, and then all of a sudden: 'How could you do that?'
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The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park.
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Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
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There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
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In the sixties, dear Bill, we did not say 'top' and 'bottom' - we said 'pitcher' and 'catcher' ...
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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.
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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!
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I pitched and I played the outfield.
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Greaseball, greaseball, greaseball, that's all I throw him (Rod Carew), and he still hits them. He's the only player in baseball who consistently hits my grease. He sees the ball so well, I guess he can pick out the dry side.
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(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.
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The biggest thing I want is for the hitter coming up behind me to get a good pitch to hit.
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On the mound is Randy Jones, the left-hander with the Karl Marx hairdo.
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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.
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I know I'm good when I'm hitting the ball the other way - that's Albert Pujols.
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There is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate.
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He bats like a lightning rod.
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He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall.
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In baseball, you don't know nothing.
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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
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I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.
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Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.
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A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.
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There is no second baseman in the game who can turn the double play better [than Mark Lemke]. Why are people always looking for offense at that position? What's more important is getting outs, and turning the double is a huge factor in getting outs.
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You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
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You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.
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I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.
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I'm probably an average hitter, at least, and if you talk to my peers, they will tell you that I hit the ball plenty far enough.
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I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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Betemit's positional flexibility is the same as yours: He can stand around and muse about the great philosophical debates of our day anywhere on the field. Catching and throwing the baseball is an entirely different question.
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A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.
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I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!
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If I have to win one game, I'd have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.
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I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia.
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Who cares if you bunt for a base hit?
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I'm trying to put together quality at-bats and hit the ball hard somewhere.