
Jose Rijo on Adjusting to Life in NY and Years as a Cincinnati Red
The Bret Boone Podcast
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The Importance of Playing for Pete Rose
"I grew up with Pete. He playing with my dad and I was just a little kid, but I grew up and I saw Pete and I saw him, you know, in his heyday," he says. "When I got there and I sawete Rose manager, that's something that nobody, nobody, not only 18, like I was at any age, any age,. I was straight to that." The former Yankees star recalls being sent down by Lou Penelope four times as a player for the Boston Red Sox before becoming one of baseball's top relievers. 'You're going to pitch for me no matter what,' Paul O'Neill told Jose Fernandez during their time together
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