Brian Schneider
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"Brian Duncan Schneider" is a United States/American former professional baseball catcher and current Manager (baseball)/manager for the Jupiter Hammerheads.

He has played for the Montreal Expos, New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies.

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This team is making a lot of money right now. Just put it like that. Revenues are higher than predicted. The good thing is if these guys come up a couple of days late, they still get the experience.

If you play a lot at the end of the year and you had a couple of days off here and there in the first half, I'm sure it helps you out a little bit, ... But as long as you continue to play every day, you still are going to get tired. This is first time I've had success in the second half. I'm doing more than I figured.

When you leave a ball out over the plate to a guy like Andruw Jones, he doesn't miss very many.

We've been in it the whole time. We haven't played our best, but you know what? The rest of the division isn't running away with it.

I wanted to keep as many offensive bullets as I could.

Hopefully we will come out and do well and open some eyes. It's a change for us compared to the last couple of years.

I've changed some things this year. It has been more mental. I don't think it's mechanical. I'm trying to continue to not chase bad pitches and look more for my pitches on different counts, ... Tom McCraw has gotten to my head enough by saying, 'Until you get two strikes, hit your pitch.' And I'm starting to do that a lot more.

I just tried to be aggressive. I got a good pitch to hit and put the best swing I could on it. We haven't given [Loaiza] that many runs this year. To give [Loaiza] a three-run lead to work with is new. [We wanted to] let him get comfortable, be aggressive, and go right after guys and not worry about giving up runs.

He got the big outs.