Buck Showalter Mark Quotations

One of the things I love about Mark, Mark attacks his weaknesses. He turned himself into a Gold Glove first baseman. A lot of people would have used the position change as an excuse. He's very driven, a self-starter.

Mark has improved a lot more than we were led to expect.

Mark is going to attack anything he can to get better.

We've waited as long as we can wait. Mark wants to be there ... it's very frustrating to the club it hasn't improved more.

There's not any phase of the game Mark wants to be mediocre in, ... He could be a guy who will steal you 10 or 15 bases a year.

I'm going to play everybody, but Mark has certainly earned that opportunity.

He's a pretty special person, a pretty special player, in that order. When I go over a list to be concerned with, Mark being ready and being as good as he can be is not one.

It's something that Mark embraced. He wanted to be the best. It wasn't for selfish reasons, but he knew we were going to need him to be a good first baseman.