When we flew in from a road trip, my son would be at the airport, and he would gravitate immediately to Earl. Earl just had that teddy bear quality about him.
"James Lee "Jim" Kaat", nicknamed ""Kitty"", is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Minnesota Twins/Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins (1959–1973), Chicago White Sox (1973–1975), Philadelphia Phillies (1976–1979), New York Yankees (1979–1980), and St. Louis Cardinals (1980–1983). His career spanned four decades.
After a brief stint as a pitching coach for the Cincinnati Reds under Pete Rose, he went on to became a sportscaster and for the next 22 years called games for the New York Yankees and the Minnesota Twins. Following a brief retirement in 2006, Jim Kaat was back in the broadcast booth calling Pool D for the 2009 World Baseball Classic in Puerto Rico, called games for NESN in 2009 (as a replacement for Jerry Remy), and currently calls games for the MLB Network as of the 2012 season.
He has written a best-selling book, Still Pitching, and has started a sports management company, Southpaw Enterprises, Inc., solely representing pitchers.
More Jim Kaat on Wikipedia.Yeah, I know those numbers. I like to take the game situation into account, too. I wouldn't care if he (Ortiz) was 10-for-20 (against Rivera), I want my best guy in there.
On the flip side, he's going to make the guys toe the line and play the game the right way. It will be professionally run. There won't be anything left to chance. Joe will have everything covered.
It's been very heartwarming to hear the words of congratulations from fans, ... If we would have had [current starting pitcher Johan] Santana in Game 7, we would have won.
He (Rodriguez) has been hearing it from the crowd.
You know what? If we had Johan Santana in Game 7, we would have won.
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