Listen to Joe

If you've watched any Phillies spring training action in the past few weeks, I hope you've had a chance to see the fourth inning interviews with manager Joe Girardi. They've been fantastic.

Today, for example, Joe was talking about the danger of pitchers hitting in the National League with Roman Quinn at the plate and Ronald Torreyes on second. Quinn hit a chopper over the pitcher that was fielded by the shortstop, who had no chance to get the speedster at first. The shortstop lobbed the ball over anyway. A surprised first baseman saw Torreyes rounding third for some reason, and threw home. Torreyes was out by 30 feet.

When asked by Ricky Bottalico what happened with Torreyes on the play, all Joe could say was, "I'm not sure what happened there. I'll have to get to the bottom of that."

Girardi has been thoughtful, intelligent, honest, and entertaining. He's a great baseball mind and I'm really glad he's the guy guiding this team.