Dave Huppert Quotations

Maybe we should keep wearing them. They seem to have worked pretty well.

I was sending him. I knew it was a chance to win the game.

I have always wanted to stay in the uniform. My thought process every year is to keep it on as long as someone will let me.

His pitch limit is 100. They don't give you anything extra for pitching nine innings.

I think the guys are just getting in the flow of the season. If it were the middle of June and we were playing this way I'd be upset.

Someone is going to have to step up for us.

It has nothing to do with that. It's about how they go about playing.

I was behind Rick Dempsey in the Orioles organization and I wasn't getting any younger.

We got eight hits today. We just couldn't get the big one we needed. They got the hit they needed. That was the difference.

This team had between four and seven runs and between eight and 12 hits every game in spring training. I'm sure they will come around.

You do that at this level and the hitters will chase.

These days it's right to the computer after the games with full reports filed right away.

A couple of our guys weren't too anxious for the game to become official. You put an 0-for-13 in there and your average goes down quick.

It's in their hands now. If you are any kind of an athlete you are embarrassed to be 0-8.

It was hard for us. We haven't been able to play any baseball. We needed some work.

These pitchers all have the kind of stuff where they have a future in the organization.

I'm not worried about Clay. All hitters go through that. He'll come right back. He is a good hitter.

I like to be aggressive on the bases. But if you don't have speed you have to adapt. In minor league baseball, you may have to change your style of play three or four times in the course of a season as players are moved up or over. You would like to keep your core players, but it doesn't work like that.

I'll play him as long as we have him.

These guys have to understand you don't hit .150 at this level and keep a job in professional baseball.

You work on development in the early part of the day. When the games are being played you go out there every night to win.