Joe Girardi Throw Quotations

Seventeen days in you can't keep making the same mistakes. You can't just work your butts off and throw it away because you want to do too much.

If it's a discussion every day, it's a discussion every day. If it's a little microphone I throw in his earpiece ... I'll just tell him to hit stand-up doubles, that's all.

He taught me to be a better receiver, a more comfortable receiver. He taught me how to throw better. I changed my whole throwing once I met him. We talked in depth about handling pitchers, pitch selection. Any phase of the game he was involved in making me better.

I'm a pretty upbeat guy. I tend to throw a lot of praise around.

He's been there before, so he's going to work in the outfield a little bit, and then we are going to work him in a game. I want to make sure he's comfortable out there before I just throw him out there.

He's got no fear. He could throw all of his pitches over at any time. He opened a lot of eyes this spring. He's come a long way in a short period of time.

I thought we had a very good day. Pitchers were able to throw with hitters standing in.

Three pitches, no fear, can throw all his pitches over at any time. He opened a lot of eyes in spring training.

You just can't throw the ball away. You got to take what the game will give you and you can't make spectacular plays when there's nothing there. You have to know your base runners.