Five hit batters to one at the time, and Nick gets hit after the warning. Nothing was said. But our guy gets rung, I get rung, because he felt like that was the appropriate time for us to retaliate. You've got to be kidding me.
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I think it will show the people in this organization if they come to Spring Training and do a good job or make adjustments, they have a chance to make the club.Frank Robinson
I don't know if staying in the Major Leagues hurt his development, but it certainly didn't help his development. He would have benefited much more if he played a full year in the Minor League level.
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It is a distraction. Absolutely.
Frank Robinson
We have to get people on base. That's what we have to do. We have to get people on base and we have to get the big base hit. We're not doing any of that right now. We also have to start driving the ball to the gaps -- doubles. And we have to start our offense early in the inning rather than waiting for one or two outs. Those are the things we have to do and then things will fall into place. We will score runs. We will have the opportunity to score runs. We will have the opportunity to drive runs in.
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Catching the ball That's not a fundamental. It's what you do when you wake up and put a glove on your hand and you say I am going to play baseball.
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I'm not going to walk him to lead off an inning. I don't walk anybody leading off an inning. I don't think there is anybody in the game I would ever walk leading off an inning, or walk him with the bases loaded to save three runs.
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