Felipe Alou and Bob Welch key in Miguel Batista career

Santo Domingo: "In a school called Baseball Felipe Alou, pitcher Miguel Batista learned to respect the game, doing more to statistics provided by Scouts advanced equipment and

• also to understand the bureaucracy of baseball.

He said the leader of the Montreal Expos, under whom he was in the seasons 1998, 1999 and 2000, "has an incredible knowledge of the opponent's offensive system.

• He studies the numbers like an accountant.

Always rallies emphasized the need to play at the top end of victory and to please an audience that had made the effort to leave their homes and pay one or more ticket to watch the show. "Philip always told us: that people draw their money out of pocket to see you, so I do not accept quackery," says Batista, who was called "The Pancake Haina" while successfully attempting to speak the unique style of it.

• He also said that Alou is probably the best known leader of the
• opponent's offensive and

• urged his players to read well because it is a fundamental tool for their careers.

For example, said that once during a meeting with pitchers and catchers before a game against the San Diego Padres, he showed the batting Tony Gwynn displaying the time he attacked the first pitch.

"Gentlemen, this is not wrong,

• Tony Gwynn, a man who will be Hall of Fame, is
• hitting .190 lifetime when
• he does swing at first pitch.

"You have to to like this man up immediately.

After then I will not recommend anything because hitting between .300 and .500 and can frustrate those boys,

• "says" The Poet "(Batista) on the recommendations made Alou.

However revealed that no one has had more faith in their conditions as pitcher

• Bob Welch, who was his pitching coach for several years with Arizona Diamondback.

He said Welch, a winner of 211 games in a 18-year career in the majors that was divided between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Oakland Athletics,

• intervened on his behalf on many occasions to give him the chance
• to be in the rotation."

From Listin Diario article by Freddy Tapia, 12/24/09, "Felipe and Welch, keys in career of Miguel Batista" google translation

• Original Spanish
• photo from Listin Diario

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