http://www.azcentral.com/sports/diamondbacks/articles/0310dbprice0310.html New coach impresses pitchers Price quickly gets to know D-Backs staff 新教练影响了投手们 Price很快渐渐了解了响尾蛇队 Bob McManaman The Arizona Republic Mar. 10, 2006 12:00 AM To understand how quickly - and deeply - Bryan Price dived right into his new job as Diamondbacks pitching coach, you need to talk to some of the pitchers in the system. 为了要快速而且深入的了解， Price刚埋进了他这个新的响尾蛇投手教 练的工作，你必须要和这整个系统里面的投手聊一聊。 It takes only a second to figure out where Price stands in most of their eyes. "He's been unbelievable," right-hander Brandon Webb said. "He called me up after he got the job and - I hate to admit this - but since I didn't recognize the number, I blew it off and didn't answer the phone. 而我们只需要几秒，就可以知道 Price在这些人的眼中在哪里。 「他非常棒，」右投 Webb 这样说。「他在他得到这个工作之後没几多 久就打电话给我 ---- 而我不想承认的是 ---- 因为我不知道那个电话是 谁，所以我根本不鸟他然後没回。」 "But after I listened to the message, I called him right away. We talk all the time and I can't wait for the season to start, so we can talk and get to know each other even more." 「不过当我听了留言之後，我马上回电了。我们讲了很久，而且我很希 望球季快点开始，所以我们可以快点让彼此互相了解。」 After spending the past 17 seasons in the Seattle Mariners' system, the last six as the big-league pitching coach, he was lured to Arizona by his good friend, Diamondbacks manager Bob Melvin. Within days, Price requested and reviewed videotape of every pitcher who would be reporting to spring training. 在水手队的系统里面待了超过 17 年，最後六年是大联盟的投教之後， 他被响尾蛇的总教练，他的好朋友 Bob Melvin 延揽到响尾蛇来。在几天 之内， Price要到并且看过了所有会参加春训的投手们的影带。 In between, he took the time to call every one of them to introduce himself, discuss the upcoming season, talk about expectations and to basically be a friend. The better he understands the pitchers in the organization, the easier it will be to improve upon last season's team ERA (4.84), which ranked 14th in the National League. 在这之中，他了点时间打电话给每个人自我介绍，讨论下个球季，还有 在基本上是朋友的立场上讲了些下一季的期望。 越是了解整个系统里面的投手，越能够让去年的 4.84 防御率变好，这 样的数据在国联排第 14。 "I've never had a pitching coach do that before," right-hander Claudio Vargas said of the chats with Price on the phone. "That made me feel pretty good, sort of special, you know?" 「我从来没有遇过一个投手教练会这样干的。」右投 Vargas 对於投教 的电话这样表示。「他让我感到很不错，有点特别，懂吗？」 Left-hander Brad Halsey and right-hander Dustin Nippert said almost the exact same thing. Ditto with veteran Russ Ortiz, and he trained under the man considered to be the Cy Young of pitching coaches - Leo Mazzone, the longtime brains behind the Atlanta Braves' staff, who now is with the Baltimore Orioles. 左投 Halsey 和右投 Nippert同样也提到了差不多的感觉。同样的还有 老将 Ortiz，被称为投教界的赛扬的 Mazzone教过球，Mazzone 现在在金 莺，过去是勇士教练群里面的首脑。 "We've been able to work real well together," Ortiz said of Price. "He said to me, 'I'm going to be totally honest with you and I want you to be totally honest with me. Let's not beat around the bush.' That's what I love. That's something Leo always said, too." 「我们会一起共事的非常好。」 Ortiz提到 Price。「他对我说，『我 会完全对你诚实，而我希望你也是。让我们不要互相猜疑吧。』这正是我 想要的，这也是当年 Leo Mazzone说的。」 Price is still trying to climb inside the minds of his pitchers to learn everything he can. So far, they've all seemed to let him explore as he gains their trust. To maximize his time in camp, he's called early staff workout sessions to learn about the pitchers in closer-knit groups. "It gives me a chance to get to know them and talk about what I feel their strengths and weaknesses are and what they think their strengths and weaknesses are," Price said. "That's probably been the most valuable time I've spent here so far." Price 仍然试着想要爬进这些投手的心理面，并且试着学习每件事。目 前为止，他们似乎让他能够探索，而他也能够博得他们的信任。为了要增 加他在春训营的时间，他找了大家一起先来练，试着把投手们变成个感情 更好的团队。 Price 说：「这给我一个能够了解他们，还有讨论我觉得他们的优点和 缺点的机会。」这可能是我在这里目前为止最有价值的时间。」 Melvin knew the value he could get out of Price after spending the 2003 and '04 seasons with him in Seattle as the Mariners' manager. No one will say it, but the decision to let Mark Davis go as pitching coach after last season wasn't so much because of anything Davis did. It was because Melvin sensed he could pry Price away from the Mariners. 在 2003 年和 04年在水手当总教练和他一起工作之後，Melvin知道 Price 的价值。 没人会说出来，但是 Mark Davis 在季末没续聘，和他去年到底在投手 教练的位置上做了什其实没什麽关系。重点是 Melvin 知道他可以把 Price 从水手队挖过来。 "Mark Davis did a very credible job for us last year," Melvin said. "But Bryan has a lot of experience. . . . For me, he's the best." 「Davis去年为队上做的不错，」Melvin说。「不过 Bryan有很多经验... 对我来说，他是最好的。」 To illustrate his point, Melvin said Price doesn't play favorites. "He makes everybody feel the same. Everybody gets treated the same," he said. "The last guy here is treated as well as the first guy." 为了描绘他的说法， Melvin 说 Price不会只用他的爱将。 「他让每个人感觉都一样。每个人的对待都一样。」他说。「第一个人和 最後一个人的对待都一样。」 Talk to the pitchers, and they all seem to agree. Left-hander Randy Choate, a non-roster invitee trying to win a spot in the bullpen, has been impressed with Price from the start. So has closer Jose Valverde. And everyone from Nippert to Brandon Lyon. 和投手谈到这点的时候，他们似乎全部都同意。左投 Randy Choat，他 是今年训练营不在名单内但被邀请来的球员，想要在牛棚里面讨口饭吃， 从一开始就为 Price的表现感到赞赏。同样的情况也发生在 Valverde,还 有 Nipper, Lyon。 All of them have said Price has already helped them in one way or another, from isolating a problem with their mechanics to just being a positive influence and making sure they stay prepared and focused. "He just makes you feel important," Halsey said. "It doesn't take long for you to realize that his goals are the same as your goals. As much as we want to become better pitchers, he's trying to make us better pitchers. 他们都说 Price已经在某种程度上帮助了他们，从点出他们投球机制上 的问题到只有积极的影响他们要保持准备好以及专注。 "That's what you want, somebody who's there to diagnose anything that might be going wrong, a guy that wants to help you improve yourself because that only helps the entire team." 「这就是你想要的，有些人在那边诊断哪些部分可能会错掉，一个人在那 边可以让你自己增进，因为这样才能够让整个球队更好。」 --

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