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His toothpick total can be as varied as pitch counts. They are made from Birchwood trees treated with tea tree oil and menthol, and mint is his preferred version. “I’ve still got some unfinished business,” he admitted.Īt some point during his dugout years, Baker substituted Tea Tree Therapy Toothpicks for chewing tobacco as his preferred method of stress reduction.
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As Astros players praised him, Baker said he wants to return. His contract is up and his future uncertain, much like Astros shortstop Carlos Correa, who heads into a free-agent market threatened with a management lockout. I was an outsider,” he said, “But this year, they made me feel like I was one of them and they were definitely always one of me.” “Last year I felt like a substitute teacher, really. He is the king of dugout cool, likely the only big league manager who shared a joint with Jimi Hendrix, as Baker did in 1968.īaker took over the Astros in January 2020 following stints managing San Francisco, the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati and Washington, tasked with guiding and shielding players through the fallout of the team’s sign-stealing scandal. “I haven’t been home since I left in February, so you know I must love these guys and love what I’m doing.”īaker is a throwback to the old days, before designated hitters, steroids, computer-driven shifts and perpetual pitching changes. “I feel terrible because I’m not really ready to go home," Baker explained later. At the final out, he looked at the celebration, put hands on hips and turned to head back up to the clubhouse. He snapped his head, swiped a fist and muttered after Jorge Soler sent Luis Garcia's cutter soaring over the left field train tracks for a three-run homer that put the Braves ahead 3-0 in the third inning. But I’m probably a little bit too cool to be a granddad right now.” “So I’m kind of in between a dad and maybe even a granddad. “When I first came in, I was more like an uncle, and then I became more like a dad,” he said. He spent much of this one trudging back and forth from the dugout to the pitcher's mound, shoulders slightly hunched. has participated in about 6,550 big league games. Now 72 and at end of his 24th season as a big league skippger following 19 as an outfielder and four as a coach, Johnnie B. “Quite frankly, this one doesn’t hurt quite as much as the first one did because the first one, I thought we had that one,” he said. Nineteen years after falling one win short with San Francisco, Baker’s quest ended two victories shy with Houston following a 7-0 defeat on Tuesday night to the Atlanta Braves, the team that launched his career back in the Summer of Love.
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Time ticks louder for this most beloved of baseball lifers, still the winningest manager without a World Series title. HOUSTON- Thousands of toothpicks have bitten the dust, yet Dusty Baker needs more.
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