Tony Vitello provides latest Casey Schmitt, Giants injury updates on Wednesday
Giants manager Tony Vitello speaks to reporters ahead of San Francisco's matchup against the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday at Oracle Park.
Tony Vitello provides latest Casey Schmitt, Giants injury updates on Wednesday originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
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Fun to see a first-round pick in the, you know, show up at the ballpark for the first time- Yeah after signing and kind of neat, especially with your background and knowing what those guys go through to get here.
Yeah.
And, very familiar with his coach he had there and some other people in the Santa Barbara area.
Coaching in Salinas, that was our biggest rival.
I was actually set to go coach there, before I got hired at Missouri.
So, the guys put in all the work upstairs, and I think they were adamant about him being, being our guy, but we were pretty fired up, too, as a coaching staff.
So it'll be good to meet him.
I think it'll be good for the coaches to meet him, but it'll be even better for the players.
It'll be a little hectic with it being pre-game and all that, but it'll be good for him to introduce himself to some guys and, and vice versa.
I know you're familiar with him and his, his, his body of work and stuff, and know that sometimes college pitchers can make it pretty quickly.
Could you see him being somebody who contributes here within a year or two?
I do.
You know, first things first is he's durable.
I mean, it's, he's a good s- got a really good frame.
The athleticism I think, too, matches up with the guys that are on the field out here.
And then the stuff is there.
I mean, to take a guy at four, it means you don't see there's a whole lot of changes that need to be made, so really it's about him staying in a rhythm with his throwing program and, you know, coming in and, and seeing what he can do.
And obviously you don't wanna rush anything and, but sometimes these guys, like Bryce is right in front of us right here, they dictate the action a little bit more than we would.
So hopefully we all meet in the middle in a pretty good spot pretty quick.
Do you have anything new on decisions for any guys?
Casey or- no.
I mean, Casey's gonna need work.
To what extent, it's kinda one of those things they won't know until, until he has surgery, but he's, he's, he's gonna need to do that.
When is that scheduled for, do you know?
Nothing, nothing official, but immediate.
As soon as possible.
Arthroscopic.
Yeah.
Presumably.
what, I, I wasn't here yesterday, so apologies if you k- explained, in more detail what happened with Bader, but do, do you guys kinda know what happened there?
A general idea, and again, what, what I commented yesterday was my only thing was I just checked in on him and kinda got from there.
I've left it up to the medical staff and, and the front office to kinda get sorted out, and I'd assume he'd speak to you guys at some point or, exact details would come about.
But the main thing for us was trying to analyze another injury, and one gets added, so it probably puts everything on the back burner with what he had going on, because now he's gotta heal his foot.
You know, I know it's swollen and it's definitely not in ideal shape, but I, I personally haven't looked at his foot.
Was it, was there imaging on that?
Is something broken or?
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
Do you know what the other injury is?
I was just talking about what he was dealing with before.
Yeah, but the, the, the medical report yesterday said there was a different injury.
His foot.
It didn't say the- His foot but you guys don't know yet what the injury is, right?
As far as what you would label it?
Yeah.
No.
What is something about Jackson that stuck out to you on tape that you really loved about him?
Definitely, he used to be able to play shortstop, so I'm repetitive, but I, I really like the athleticism 'cause I think, when you get a guy like that, y- you let him run a little bit, but at some point, guys make adjustments in their career, and like Webby being a football athlete, I think he'll be able to, to adapt to the game as it adapts to him a little bit.
But also the fastball's ready to go.
I mean, velocity isn't the number one thing, but if you have velocity and command with it.
But probably the biggest thing, which should've been my first answer, is the competitiveness.
He's got a reputation, not just in game for kinda having a called swagger if you want, but a big time competitive attitude, but also on practice days, which different than Major League Baseball, you have more practice days than you do game days in college.
So if you treat those, like they're game day, whether it's PFP or conditioning or anything else involved with that, to me it's at least a little bit of a foreshadowing that you can keep a competitive level, that, that he showed in college over the course of a long, long season.
Pretty much telling, telling any tales out of school, but I think it's pretty fair to say the team you return here next week will be markedly different than what it is today.
Do you address that in the clubhouse or is that just something you figure guys are grown men, they don't need?
There'll be changes for sure.
I think, you know, I've kinda mentioned it before.
You talk about college, all those practice days are days you can intervene with, you know, we messed up a PFP play.
You do it 50 times.
You talk about it.
You show video.
So anyway, that's just one example of something you always wanna address as coach is improvement or team camaraderie, team attitude.
And there's, there's not as many avenues to do it at this level because, you know, you got a day game after a night game.
So if anything, it'd be a great opportunity or an excuse as a coach just to get in front of the team, to be honest with you.
But yeah, I think it'd be good to do that anyway.
For, for any team that makes a change throughout the league, it is a little bit of a restart to the season or a fresh start of some sort.
Looks like- You expect Robbie to make a start tomorrow?
Yeah.
It looks like Chapman's running the bases.
Yeah.
That's often sort of a last step before somebody.
Are you- Yeah, and he, so- still thinking San Diego?
So on one of the days, you know, I get these damn things all mixed up.
I believe it was three days ago.
I don't think you were here.
It was about as intense of a workout as you could have.
So he did the base running.
He did live reads at third base.
He did live, simulated live at-bats in the cage.
So today is actually a step back from that a little bit.
But yeah, today's base running, defense, and full-fledged swinging.
So he's close, and sometime in San Diego he'll play.
Just on Casey, the surgery, will that end his season or- I, I think it's more than likely.
I mean, I don't, you know, we, we talked yesterday.
I- I'm not sure if you were here or not, but kinda what's the next thing in front of you.
Yeah.
And the next thing in front of him is for the doctors to determine exactly what he needs.
And that'll dictate how long the runway's gonna be, but, it's more than likely if just two dudes talking.
A lot of other dudes here, and ladies here too, though.
When you mentioned potentially coaching at Santa Barbara, was that UC Santa Barbara or your, or the- No, summer team Flagler team?
The Foresters.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah, they've, that's, they got a long history of success there.
Bill, Bill Pintar does a great job, and Bill, you know, he's got good things to say about Florida, for sure.
Chris?
