NFL quarterback Russell Wilson spends the week with the New York Yankees and participates in training. Meanwhile, General Manager Brian Cashman remarked that he could also imagine the Second Baseman in a game. His head coach in the NFL, Pete Carroll, doesn’t seem to mind.
“I think it’s great,”Carroll told reporters on the sidelines of the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis/Indiana.
“He’d be training anyway and doing something,”Carroll said and continued:”Some guys are traveling around the world. He plays baseball. I don’t think that’s wrong, not at all. The focus it takes to play at this level – whether it’s baseball, basketball or football – the mentality you need to have is simply an enrichment. So I have no problem with that.”
When Carroll was asked in concrete terms what he thought of Wilson’s actual deployment, he evaded a little bit:”He doesn’t do a good job against pitches that are pitched away from him. We hope that he will move the ball into the right field a little more often. We want him to go with the pitch. Apart from that, he still has problems with the curveball as it was then. So we’ll see what happens.”
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