What I'm trying to convince them is, you're not trying to beat the Yankees or the Red Sox or the Blue Jays, you're trying to beat the game of baseball through execution. When you play the game properly, it really should not matter what name is on the front or back of the shirt. And when you can reduce it to that mentally, I think you have a better chance of repeating the proper things over and over again.
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We're just looking to see if we can get someone in the right place more often. If you look at the charts, he rarely hits a ball on the left side of the field in the infield, rarely. It might be a pop up now and then. ... He can bunt if he likes. You know, God bless him. It's just a matter of you've got all this information, why accumulate all this information then not use it I don't quite get that.Joe Maddon
You watch him during BP, he's very strong. It doesn't surprise me he's hitting the ball that well.
Joe Maddon
It's a vacillating situation. There just haven't been six, seven guys who have established themselves on a consistent basis. So we're constantly re-evaluating it. If there were six guys who just jumped out, let's go. But it hasn't been that way.
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(Being) .500 is a nice thing, but it's still being mediocre. We've got to get beyond that.
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We're going after an attitude. And an attitude is a decision. You learn how to win.
Joe Maddon
If players are around 30 and take good care of themselves they might be productive for five or six years. What's wrong with that
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