Clint Hurdle Quotes on Place (8 Quotes)

As far as production goes, it's at the bottom of his baseball card. But as far as leadership and the way he's rallied the team, it's at the top. This year has challenged him in a lot of different areas, made him stretch and grow in a lot of places and I think he has handled it well.

It's something we have thought about and if it falls into place, it falls into place, ... But I don't want to do it just as a novelty I want to do it for some meaning. It think it would emphasize the job player development has done for us, and the job the scouts have done.

He showed us what we needed to see to have confidence in his ability to put him in the game at any time, at any place in the outfield or as part of the lineup.

We haven't gone there yet. You want to enjoy it. You want to have fun with it. It's an accomplishment in its own right. But, again, we've got a plan in place.

It's a situation we can live with because we worked to create the depth we have. We have people in place to step up. We have the depth to be able to deal with things like this now.

It's Jason's time to take the next step, and sometimes when players can't get to certain places, it's up to a coach to take them there. I want him to know going in that I've got the confidence in him to do that. By giving him the ball Opening Day, I can't make a bigger statement than that.

We have a youthful lineup. They have gone through a stretch where they have collectively come up short driving runs in. Each time it doesn't happen there seems to be more importance or a heightened awareness the next time, an added weight to be fit into place. That's just part of the experience process they have to get through. They have to realize that no matter what happens, we're going to play another game.

We wanted to do something early. We talked about it there at Coors, we really weren't able to. He's a guy you got to try to keep heat on, make him pitch, make him elevate his pitch count, which we did at our place.