Quotes about Shortstop

I feel pretty comfortable [at shortstop] now.

Nick Green

First base and shortstop are the only places where we lost players from last year.

Mark Riggin

Our hitting still hasn't come around like we'd like, but we were opportunistic. We took advantage of some mistakes by them. We scored two runs on an error by the shortstop; we scored the winning run on a bases-loaded walk. We weren't getting those kind of breaks early on.

John Roush

She's a good player. She pitched great tonight, and she showed she can play shortstop, too. She did a good job.

Jenny Meirowsky

They talk about his defense, but what I saw offensively was not a weak shortstop. He's got more strength than I was led to believe. Anybody can do the drills when the ball is coming at you at 50 miles an hour (in batting practice), but I like what I see early.

Jeff Pentland

It was a timely double play, to say the least. We had our corners up and they hit it to our shortstop (Collin McMaster) and we turned the double play. It was a little nerve-wracking.

Scott Rowland

The fact that she's a successful lawyer doesn't mean she's going to do a good job as a Supreme Court justice. To use a baseball analogy, just because somebody is a good shortstop doesn't mean you put him in as a pitcher.

Alan Morrison

He has the talent to be a quality shortstop at the Major League level.

Mike Quade

It's sticky. There are very few people who think he can't help our club, but is it the best thing for him? He's done a great job adjusting to the outfield, making all the plays, and I'm confident he can do other things defensively, like shortstop and first and third base. In left field, he looks like Dave Winfield.

Grady Little

All will see significant playing time. Ally could be our starting shortstop.

Patty Evans

The kid's got a rocket for an arm. He's played in the outfield, but he wanted to try shortstop, and he has really picked up the technique pretty well. He comes from such a baseball-rich program that his overall fundamentals to play the game are pretty good.

Augustine Ruiz

Mr. Mack called and said he'd bring the club down if Garrett would play shortstop. Garrett came, played that game and hit a homerun.

Bill Grier

You can tell right now that he commands the position of shortstop. He's going to be a solid shortstop who can really hit. If you get J.D. Drew 's production when he's healthy, with a solid defensive shortstop, you've got an All-Star.

Mike Rizzo

I should have caught the first ball and (shortstop) Adam (Davis) was right there (to turn the double play). To have a second chance, I like that a lot.

Brandon Mcarthur

He pitched through recreation leagues. He has a good, strong arm. We typically are not real crazy moving our shortstop off of shortstop, but we are looking at him as a closer and how he handles that role.

Brooks Shumake

Those decisions are down the road, if we make them at all. We drafted him as a shortstop. We believe he can be an impact major leaguer as a shortstop, so there's no plans in the near future to move him off short.

Mike Rizzo

That's one of those situations where if you take a chance, you could blow it just as easily. If I had another opportunity and knew it was going to go nine innings I might have taken the chance, but I felt their shortstop had a cannon for an arm and that the catcher would have needed to drop the ball for us to score.

Kathy Barker

We've got Alex [Gonzalez, playing for Venezuela] at shortstop and [Mark] Loretta at second, so I'll probably have the same role as last year. I'm getting to the point where it is what it is.

Alex Cora

All good defensive teams have a good shortstop and he will be a solid piece of our defensive puzzle.

Chad Logan

I just wasn't really into pitching. I wanted to focus more on hitting. I decided hitting and playing shortstop were more important to me.

Brianne Farmer

Ever since Lauren Bradshaw left a couple of years ago, we have struggled with the shortstop position. Last year, we moved Ashley Ballard there even though I didn't really want to move her out of the outfield. We have to find someone who can play that position because the middle of the defense is so important.

Jessica Reynolds

There was an adjustment period that may have lasted longer than you had hoped. The Braves feel he will become the shortstop of his earlier years, and I hope he does.

Bill Lajoie

A shortstop with some, but certainly not overwhelming promise.

Jerome Holtzman

(LeRoy) is playing his tail off. He's really, really helping out on defense. It helps our pitching to have a shortstop playing third base.

Rob Willson

It was one of those classic five hoppers. It took one hop over Honeycutt's head and four more up the middle, going right past the shortstop and second baseman.

Rusty Kuntz

I was real happy when he asked me to play there. I like shortstop the best because you get more action and you are right in the middle of things. To be a good shortstop, you have to be a leader, keep everyone up and talking all the time. You have to know the game and know what is going on all the time.

Sarah Boyd

We're coming to a point where we'll have to make a decision, but the skills he refines while playing shortstop will serve him regardless of where he ends up. We have a new coaching staff and we'd like their input.

Roy L. Smith

It helped me a lot just by learning from every other shortstop on every other team.

Robert Andino

They started with a ground ball to (shortstop James) Lilley, who threw it into the dugout and things fell apart from there.

Sam Rick

She's tough. She has improved so much behind the plate. At the beginning of the season she was at shortstop, and we made a few changes defensively and one of them was putting her behind the plate.

Charles Vidrine

He was a shortstop and a pitcher, but I could play him anywhere. He was that kind of athlete.

Ted Morgan