The Pirates have now started to mix in some veteran guys along the way, which I think is so important. Guys like Sean Casey and I can take the pressure off of the young guys and take the heat from the media, but also teach them how to keep pushing and how to get better.
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I think every situation is unique. You can get along great, but if you go out on the field and don't communicate well . . .There's a lot of things that happen in sports that are unexplainable.Joe Randa
I played with him for four months, and he made my top five. And I'm a pretty hard grader. It's hard to get on that list because I think there are a lot of guys in this game who take being in the big leagues for granted and who also don't use all their tools all the time. But Sean gives you everything he has all the time.
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A lot of those years we didn't play well. But when you have a young team you don't have depth. If you have injuries, you're kind of done for. It was a grind. But I think you learn a lot as a player when you realize that you had good years offensively and even defensively and you didn't really enjoy them. You realize that personal success is not really important. It was frustrating. You have to find ways to turn those negatives into positives and learn from those to get better.
Joe Randa
Believe me, there's no sense of complacency in here at all. We're going out and giving it everything we've got. Bottom line, we're not getting a lot of love in key situations. We've had some good at-bats and hit balls hard, but we're not getting any breaks. We're going to work our way out of it.
Joe Randa
We've been playing a lot of high-intensity games against teams that are in do-or-die situations,
Joe Randa
Chemistry is important, but it can mean a lot of different things.
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