Is It All Going According To Plan?

I posed this question to Thunder manager Tony Franklin during the team’s series against Portland, and here’s what he had to say…

“I try not to come in with a plan, so to speak.  I just try to come in, look at a ballclub, then say we’ve got a chance to do certain things.  We’ve got a chance to hit, which we did during spring training.  We’ve got a chance to pitch well, which I think we did a pretty good job of during the spring.  And I said I thought we’d be a good defensive club.  We’ve been OK, and I think that’s one of the areas we need to get better at.  I don’t like to come in with a plan, because anything’s bound to happen.  I’m not that smart to say our plan is this, this and this.  Baseball takes on a plan of its own and you try to make adjustments within that plan or within your thought process as far as what you think that club needs.”

Mike Ashmore, mashmore98 AT gmail.com