Quote: Wally Backman likes Educated Aggressivness
Yesterday at Coney Island, SNY.TV’s Ted Berg talked to Wally Backman about his playoff-bound Brooklyn Cyclones, during which Backman said of one day managing in Major League Baseball:
“What I try to do is keep my focus here in Brooklyn. I’ve seen everything that’s happened (at Citi Field), it’s unfortunate. I came up with the Mets organization. A piece of my heart never left New York when I left the Mets for Minnesota… My style is educated aggressiveness. I like to force the defense to make mistakes. I like to hit and run. I like to do it in an educated way, with guys who can swing the bat… It’s nice to have the big hitters, who can drive the ball out of the ballpark, it’s nice to have the three-run homers, but there’s a lot of ways to score runs.”
To see more of Berg’s interview with Backman, during which the two talk about Backman’s actions in Playing for Peanuts, watch this:
