He's come a long way since he first came to us in the trade [from the Chicago White Sox]. His stroke and plate coverage are much better.
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MIKE HARGROVE It's been bothering him for awhile now. It's now as bad as it's been all year.
MIKE HARGROVE It reminded me of the first two weeks of Spring Training. But they'll be better.
MIKE HARGROVE Usually it's two guys holding the victim, but this was even better. I think this trick was invented ...
MIKE HARGROVE Everyone is doing what they're supposed to do. Guys around our big guys are getting on base and into...
MIKE HARGROVE I always have been intrigued by Ichiro hitting third. When I managed against him with Baltimore I wa...
MIKE HARGROVE I thought Joe caught real well. He had a lot of life. He bounced around behind the plate real well.
MIKE HARGROVE They've been working at this a little longer than we have this spring.
MIKE HARGROVE I think it was a little indecisive. You would have to ask him. We talked to him.
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MIKE HARGROVE Getting outscored 33-1 in Detroit, that's like a perfect storm. It's one of those things that don't ...
MIKE HARGROVE You guys asked me before if he was awestruck with the Yankees, and I tried to downplay that. I don't...
MIKE HARGROVE He could not find the plate. We took him out as early as we could.
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MIKE HARGROVE I said, 'I'm afraid he'll try to catch it in his hip pocket,'
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MIKE HARGROVE He didn't have command of anything. He got away with some hanging breaking balls early, but he didn'...
MIKE HARGROVE In the first inning, he scuffled a little bit. It was reminiscent of his last two starts. Then all o...
MIKE HARGROVE It's good to have them throw together. I think they can learn from each other a little bit.
MIKE HARGROVE I told Dobbs that's the best contact he's made all spring.
MIKE HARGROVE It was good to see. He might have muddied the picture a little bit.
MIKE HARGROVE We've been in our bullpen with a lot of regularity this year in the fifth inning or starting the six...
MIKE HARGROVE I couldn't look at that last pitch. I found something on the dugout floor to look at.
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MIKE HARGROVE We pitched well enough to win tonight. We just didn't score any runs.
MIKE HARGROVE There's nothing worse than loading the bases and scoring one run. Jose is still not a polished playe...
MIKE HARGROVE He pitched an outstanding game. We just couldn't score enough runs for him to win.
MIKE HARGROVE I think he was a little indecisive once he saw the ball. We have talked to him. He just got caught o...
MIKE HARGROVE Let's not make a mountain out of a molehill. He'll be back tomorrow.
MIKE HARGROVE What you're shooting for is to get them frustrated enough that they start holding each other account...
MIKE HARGROVE Rodriguez has got good stuff, and Lopez laid off that curveball when he got behind and got the count...
MIKE HARGROVE It's not a stretch we're happy with. But we've been in one of those stretches where it seems a lot o...
MIKE HARGROVE I would be absolutely thrilled if he's a better player when he shows up than he was when he left las...
MIKE HARGROVE I wasn't concerned about the strikeouts. He caught the ball well. He received the ball well. He made...
MIKE HARGROVE That was big. Sherrill gets a big strikeout against a very good hitter and then Mateo gets one of th...
MIKE HARGROVE I think we saw the result of not pitching in a game. Even at that, they only got two hits off him. B...
MIKE HARGROVE There was no discussion of limiting his innings. And you saw what happened to him.
MIKE HARGROVE I think we saw inactivity effect (Julio) Mateo as well.
MIKE HARGROVE We liked what we saw of him in spring training and hopefully we don't lose him. But he wasn't gettin...
MIKE HARGROVE If Willie goes out there every day, you lose a lot of your flexibility. I wouldn't mind using him ou...
MIKE HARGROVE We have options. It wouldn't do any good to discuss them before I talk to Bill. That would be puttin...
MIKE HARGROVE I didn't like it that our guys threw so many balls. They were all throwing strikes pitching in the b...
MIKE HARGROVE When I say Dan Wilson is one of the good guys, for me, that's the ultimate compliment. Very few of u...
MIKE HARGROVE If I DH Morse, I don't have a middle infielder to use later in the game. When I have him in left fie...
MIKE HARGROVE I'm worn a little thin tonight. We never really were [in it] after the first two innings.
MIKE HARGROVE It's awfully difficult going into the late innings with a one-run lead, especially the ninth inning....
MIKE HARGROVE We finally won our first extra-inning game and our first one-run game. When these things end, the wa...
MIKE HARGROVE It seems we're not only letting other teams jump out, then [they] add on, which makes it tough. But ...
MIKE HARGROVE Eddie is still our closer.
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MIKE HARGROVE The way he's thrown and the starts that he's had have been absolutely outstanding. He has been bette...
MIKE HARGROVE On a scale of 1-10, this is barely a 1. This is patty cake.
MIKE HARGROVE especially in a no-no.
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MIKE HARGROVE We've got to keep those runs from scoring, especially late in the ballgame.
MIKE HARGROVE When the other club knows you're looking to take an extra base, they'll charge the ball more. When t...
MIKE HARGROVE Had we scored one of those runs, yeah, I think we would have [gotten the momentum]. Not doing that, ...
MIKE HARGROVE Jamie's the prime candidate, and beyond that you really don't necessarily want two left-handers goin...
MIKE HARGROVE Hernandez left two pitches up in the zone, and that turned out to be the difference in the game.
MIKE HARGROVE I don't do this to be vindictive or to punish someone. I do it to get Adrian on track because we nee...
MIKE HARGROVE We have to be patient with him and take into consideration how long he's been out.
MIKE HARGROVE Seeing him throw like that gave me a warm feeling. I wish we had five more just like him.
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MIKE HARGROVE The ball wasn't going where he wanted it to. I'm sure he was a little frustrated. I've thrown my han...
MIKE HARGROVE I'm really trying not to go off the deep end bragging about this guy. I'd love to tell you the flowe...
MIKE HARGROVE I'd just as soon shut him down after the season is over. He's pitched enough.
MIKE HARGROVE I don't know how soon we'll use him.
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MIKE HARGROVE We gave up four quick ones and never got back in it. We didn't even hit many balls hard.
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MIKE HARGROVE He keeps keeping himself in the mix. He certainly hasn't done anything to eliminate himself.
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MIKE HARGROVE It was the best way to go, ... and certainly the most nerve-racking.
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MIKE HARGROVE He'll get worked real hard,
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MIKE HARGROVE I think every day he walks out and you look at his face you realize you expect too much out of him b...
MIKE HARGROVE More and more I see Adrian coming into that role,
MIKE HARGROVE I honestly believe what we're seeing is Joel gaining confidence and arm strength,
MIKE HARGROVE I hate to use those two matchup guys, Sherrill and Putz, that early. They both did a great job and g...
MIKE HARGROVE A good game for us, although I was worried about Eddie [Guardado] in the ninth, he was out of sync s...
MIKE HARGROVE That was a great slide and we got two runs out of it. That is something we have been lacking all yea...
MIKE HARGROVE the thing sat up and hissed at us, with those nasty teeth showing. We had guys running out of its wa...
MIKE HARGROVE Willie certainly has been a sparkplug for us. He's done a good job for us, and after we gave him a c...
MIKE HARGROVE Obviously, we didn't hit our spots today. When you miss as badly as we missed, you see what can happ...
MIKE HARGROVE I probably would not use him for more than one inning. And if I got him warming up in the bullpen, I...
MIKE HARGROVE He was so-so. He struggled with his command and didn't throw a lot of strikes. He was behind a lot o...
MIKE HARGROVE We need a guy in that role who's not afraid to swing the bat. And this guy is not afraid.
MIKE HARGROVE Gil's been in the big leagues awhile,
MIKE HARGROVE I don't know that he was awe-struck, but he was terribly excited.
MIKE HARGROVE Two-out hits to drive in runs are huge. They are momentum killers to the other side.
MIKE HARGROVE Offensively, I think we hoped for a little more out of Jeremy and I know he expected a lot more from...
MIKE HARGROVE We're looking for a guy who can do the job defensively, first of all. Then the offense would be a pl...
MIKE HARGROVE He's got a lot on the ball. He's the best young pitcher I've ever seen. I didn't see Dwight Gooden w...
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MIKE HARGROVE We think he slept on it wrong, and sometimes that can take hours to recover from. At least that's wh...
MIKE HARGROVE Real shallow breaths in the ninth. But at least I was still breathing.
MIKE HARGROVE How we're going to limit his innings remains to be seen. We can drop him down in the rotation ... wh...
MIKE HARGROVE It doesn't mean there are plans for him to move to third base. There was no motive other than I need...
MIKE HARGROVE We've just got to find a way to get Adrian going. And days off this early in the season I don't thin...
MIKE HARGROVE It's amazing how you can catch my eye by throwing strikes.
MIKE HARGROVE We might hold him back and just have him throw on the side. But we're not there yet.
MIKE HARGROVE Tonight he was really good. He can get wild and throw a lot of balls. We tried to let him do that, b...
MIKE HARGROVE I know the wind was blowing out, but that ball was spanked, so it probably would have been a homer r...
MIKE HARGROVE He's just a good player. He's a good hitter, a good defender and a good baserunner. He's a tremendou...
MIKE HARGROVE It's the first time I've ever seen anybody play the field with a shinguard on. He kept saying it was...
MIKE HARGROVE He kept a good-hitting team off balance.
MIKE HARGROVE You look back and are thankful that he reacted the way he did. It's not good to see him get into tro...
MIKE HARGROVE We won't know until tomorrow. If I were to guess, he pulled a hamstring.
MIKE HARGROVE Did he have no-hit stuff? Yeah, I think so. I was sitting there in the sixth wondering how many pitc...
MIKE HARGROVE I don't see how Bob Wolcott wins that game had Dan Wilson not been behind the plate.
MIKE HARGROVE We got too far behind.
MIKE HARGROVE The biggest question? Scoring runs. Anyway we can, by hook or crook, that's what we're going to do.
MIKE HARGROVE He's fine. [Mariners trainer] Rick [Griffin] has been in contact with their trainer, and what we hea...
MIKE HARGROVE He (Franklin) was throwing the ball well for four innings, then he started nibbling. When he did tha...
MIKE HARGROVE You don't try a double steal very often, but we tried it tonight and it worked. When you run a doubl...
MIKE HARGROVE To add the runs on is huge. You really couldn't write it up better than it happened tonight. Everybo...
MIKE HARGROVE I was especially pleased with the way Woods threw. It's good to see them start to step up. We've bee...
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MIKE HARGROVE If he stays healthy, we'll be able to get him back on track.
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MIKE HARGROVE When I had Richie in Cleveland he did this once, and I told him he looked like a Q-Tip. Maybe when h...
MIKE HARGROVE As long as we're the ones who have one or two more than the other team, it doesn't matter either way...
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MIKE HARGROVE When you load the bases with no outs, you want to score more than one run. When we added Lopez's two...
MIKE HARGROVE They pitched extremely well; at least three of them did. When we got to them, it was because they lo...
MIKE HARGROVE But really, there's no way to prepare for it. It's the only pitch I ever went to swing at and was ne...
MIKE HARGROVE At about the 85 to 90 pitch mark, I don't know if he got a little tired and stopped over-throwing or...
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MIKE HARGROVE We didn't know we could get three innings out of him. We sent him out there to get two. But he did s...
MIKE HARGROVE That was the big out of the inning. You get one out in that situation and there's a few things you c...
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BUZZ HARGROVE We've made a substantial amount of change, but no one is going to be thrown out on the street.
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BUZZ HARGROVE It's going to strike a lot of Windsor families today when they get this news.
BUZZ HARGROVE working on finalizing an agreement that balances the needs of the CAW, our employees and the company...
BUZZ HARGROVE I think that was a short-term view of the values of Canada.
BUZZ HARGROVE This has been a very difficult and challenging set of negotiations with General Motors. The challeng...
BUZZ HARGROVE We're certainly working towards a settlement and quite frankly, I'd like to do it before the 20th, g...
BUZZ HARGROVE Every member of our union realizes it's not business as usual anymore.
BUZZ HARGROVE Given the current economic context that we're in, this is not the richest-ever agreement that we hav...
BUZZ HARGROVE It's a major restructuring. I don't want to downplay it,
BUZZ HARGROVE You can't sit here and blame field position, because that's what we get paid to do, stop them. No ma...
ANTHONY HARGROVE they build in Tokyo. They build in Hiroshima. They build anywhere they find a big enough dock to shi...
BUZZ HARGROVE It was a tough set of bargaining, ... To get that kind of endorsement from the membership is just ex...
BUZZ HARGROVE They're demanding major outsourcing of our jobs, not because they need it but because they think the...
BUZZ HARGROVE That means two or three more vehicles per shift,
BUZZ HARGROVE I don't want to downplay what Cordiano and those guys did ... but at no time in the discussions did ...
BUZZ HARGROVE We faced one of the most difficult challenges in bargaining that we have in a good many years.
BUZZ HARGROVE Right now, as the president of the union, I'm looking to moving to DaimlerChrysler,
BUZZ HARGROVE Chrysler made it very clear to us when we were doing our probing to try to find out where we could g...
BUZZ HARGROVE Chrysler made it very clear to us when we were doing our probing, to try to find out where we could ...
BUZZ HARGROVE Chrysler made it very clear to us when we were doing our probing, to try to find out where we could ...
BUZZ HARGROVE We got no assistance from the Red Cross, period. Not from the local, state or national chapters.
GARY HARGROVE I'm not very optimistic at this point, ... The big thing is the demand on jobs that they have, on ou...
BUZZ HARGROVE That's just the love here in St. Louis. They're just crazy about their teams.
ANTHONY HARGROVE To me, it's just like going against 'Big O' (Orlando Pace) every day, ... Now, I get to face 'Big O'...
ANTHONY HARGROVE I just try to be a comfort to everybody if they have any family in the area. I'm kind of preparing t...
ANTHONY HARGROVE Somebody's going to end up 0-2 this week. We just hope it's not us.
ANTHONY HARGROVE For our organization it's a rivalry game, because every year it's always a battle for the division. ...
ANTHONY HARGROVE That's a tough one, ... I really couldn't put a finger on it.
ANTHONY HARGROVE I was totally shocked when I didn't see him out there. I really didn't realize it till we started do...
ANTHONY HARGROVE We've still got a ways to go. We're not at Max Q; we're at Max L.
ANTHONY HARGROVE We just haven't reached our potential yet. We haven't reached Max Q yet.
ANTHONY HARGROVE We're not afraid of change, we embrace change. But not at the expense of our members and their famil...
BUZZ HARGROVE It's become more difficult than we anticipated.
BUZZ HARGROVE
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