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Werth, 30, was chosen by manager Charlie Manuel to fill a spot on the National League All-Star team in July, a far cry from where he was just a few years earlier. "He said, 'I've been looking at the numbers and you've got this guy in San Fran in [Pablo] Sandoval and this guy in Arizona [Mark Reynolds] who has how-many-ever home runs, but I like my guy. I'm taking you,'" '' Werth recalled Manuel saying. Full Article at The Morning Call
He said, 'I've been looking at the numbers and you've got this guy in San Fran in [Pablo] Sandoval and this guy in Arizona [Mark Reynolds] who has how-many-ever home runs, but I like my guy. I'm taking you,'
SOURCE: The Morning Call
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Phillies' Jayson Werth making the most of his opportunity
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I always felt like I was capable ... I always thought given the chance I would produce.
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In L.A., I had an opportunity but I got injured, and then I kind of got that opportunity taken away from me ... Then you get sidetracked and don't play for a year and now all of a sudden you've got a label and you're injury-prone or a bench player or a platoon player. [You're known as a guy who] can't p...
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You can come talk to me all you want ... You've got to show me out there. He showed me something when I put him on the field.
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I felt like he had enough talent to be a good player ... And he used to tell me he could do it, that he would put up the numbers and that he was ready to be turned loose.
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He has tremendous talent ... And he's improved the last two years. But he can be better.
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I felt like then, after not really playing all year and the first month I get to play and I go 9-for-9 during one stretch (from Aug. 26-27), I think that's when I really kind of separated myself from being a bench player and to being an everyday player ... Even then I was still put into a platoon situat...
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