Phil Nevin
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"Phillip Joseph Nevin" is an American professional baseball coach working in the Arizona Diamondbacks system as the manager of the Reno Aces. He spent twelve seasons as a player in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1995 through 2006, playing for the Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim/Anaheim Angels, San Diego Padres, Texas Rangers (baseball)/Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, and Minnesota Twins. Nevin wears number 25 with Reno as manager.

Nevin attended California State University, Fullerton where he played college baseball for the Cal State Fullerton Titans baseball/Cal State Fullerton Titans team. He led the Titans to the championship game in the 1992 College World Series (CWS), after which he was named the College World Series Most Outstanding Player/CWS Most Outstanding Player and won the Golden Spikes Award. Chosen with the List of MLB first overall draft choices/first-overall pick in the 1992 Major League Baseball Draft, Nevin went on to play in MLB for seven teams across 12 seasons. He was selected to appear in the 2001 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

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It's a good park to hit in, a very fair park, ... I still don't have anything bad to say about Petco. It's a beautiful place. But the numbers don't lie. Guys used to hitting 30-35 homers are hitting 15-20. Do the math.

Sometimes a change in scenery is good, sometimes time runs out in a certain spot. It did for me here. There's no animosity or anger toward anything. It's been an unbelievable ride here, obviously something I'll never forget. There'll be some great memories.

Best hitting coach in baseball, ... He has this way of communicating and getting things through to you. We look at what we're doing like what Tiger Woods went through, revamping the swing. He took a few steps back and one step forward.

[Darling] made two horrible calls on me and you can clearly see on TV. All I did was hold my bat up and tell him that he should try it.

No, ... I just don't think I could do that.

You should have been here, I was hitting fourth.

Hopefully, this team will start winning and they don't have anybody else to boo and it'll be smooth sailing in San Diego for a while.

I guess my job, ... is to come out and do well in batting practice.

At least I wasn't pulled out of the lineup like I was in the doubleheader. How can you fault a guy for wanting to play? We don't make out the lineup.