Chip Hale
FameRank: 4

"As player"

*Minnesota Twins (–, –)

*Los Angeles Dodgers

"As manager"

*Arizona Diamondbacks (–present)

"As coach"

*Arizona Diamondbacks (–)

*New York Mets (–)

*Oakland Athletics (–)

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"Walter William "Chip" Hale" (born December 2, 1964) is an American former Major League Baseball second baseman and third baseman and current Manager (baseball)/manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks. He played college baseball at the University of Arizona.

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He wasn't ready. He just came in (Saturday) night and he told me he didn't think he could keep going. He felt (his arm) was too weak. If we had more (designated hitter) days we could keep him.

Every team in this league has had situations where either their rehab guys helped them win or they've had to deal with some bad outings or bad at-bats. That's just the way it goes. That's just another excuse. For me, the only excuse why we (were not) winning was because we weren't playing well.

It depends on where your team is. If your major-league team is in the race and they're trying to win their division or the wild card, you should only bring up guys that can win. If your team is completely out of it, it's nice to give guys a look and see how they play, because they're there to play.

This is baseball. I don't think there is anyone in the clubhouse here or in the coaches' room that played as long as we played that didn't just have an off year.

Whatever we can do to let the community know we appreciated what they do for us, we're going to do the best we can. We want to do things the right way, whether it's out here or on the field.

It took awhile in spring training to get used to it, but once you get used to it, it feels good.

It's a good time for us. It's fun to see people getting excited about baseball season, but most of all it's about doing the right thing for our community.

I think that it's been a rough year for him, period. But at his age, and only playing half a season at Double-A (because of a shoulder injury in 2004), you really have to offensively believe that he will be a different hitter next year.