I had him get after it. I'm just trying to make him concentrate more in every situation, have a purpose for everything. I was giving him certain outs, counts, scores, to see what he would do with it.
More Quotes from Mark Connor:
I saw Rick come up with Baltimore in '01 and I liked his stuff. I haven't seen much of him since but he's got a live arm, his ball sinks and he's got a good slider. There's more in there than he's shown and I've given him a couple mechanical things that hopefully will help him.Mark Connor
I thought he was pretty good. Coming out of spring training, he turned the dial up with his intensity, with his stuff. He made a couple of bad pitches, obviously, but I thought he could have been out of that fifth inning and it's 2-0 ... a couple of balls hit hard and that's about it.
Mark Connor
Right now he's getting ahead of hitters and throwing three pitches for strikes. That's what a starting pitcher needs to do.
Mark Connor
I let him throw some breaking balls today for the first time. He threw about eight breaking balls, not max effort, but getting over the top of them with no problem, so we'll continue along those lines.
Mark Connor
He's not ready. It's his typical Spring Training regimen. If you look at his past, he basically averages eight innings in 'A' games, even back when he was in Atlanta. His first spring they pitched him 20 innings and he basically had a 10.00 ERA. It takes him a while to get going.
Mark Connor
We're counting on him to assume a role of responsibility late in the game.
Mark Connor
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Purposes QuotesI suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.
Noel Redding
Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.
Leo Ornstein
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
Walt Disney