You can't continue to make the same mistakes over and over again. There has to be a way to get across to the players that bad play or bad performance is unacceptable. You learn your craft in the Minor Leagues. At the big league level, we expect results.
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With Castillo out, Freddy's shown he's more valuable as an everyday player than part-time. Besides playing well at second and short, he's played excellent third base. It's like having two shortstops on the left side.Pete Mackanin
When he hit that second one, I took a deep breath.
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There is natural ability and there is skill. There is an art to pitching. It's a skill position. It's not easy to throw quality pitches. It's not easy to throw the ball where you want to when you have that kind of velocity and that kind of movement. It boils down to being able to harness that stuff and throw it on the corners down in the zone. It's not easy to do. On a given day, Kip can do it. On another day, he can't do it.
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We all knew he was a better hitter than he was showing early in the season. Now, is he the 200-hit guy he was (in 2004) or the .260-.270 guy he is now He's probably somewhere in the middle. But if Jack was anything close to what he his now, we probably would have won more games in the first half.
Pete Mackanin
In this business and the way the contracts are, you've got to keep moving and you've got to keep adding players you can keep two or three years. He's probably not going to get an opportunity to start unless it's an emergency.
Pete Mackanin
In general, that's probably as good as he looked in a long time. Unfortunately, his stamina isn't built up to where we'd like him to be. But it was nice to see him back in somewhat of a pretty good form.
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