This is a guy who gets what we are really trying to accomplish here, and that's pound the bottom of the [strike] zone. |
This is a guy who just hasn't been right yet, and mentally to put the kind of pressure we're putting on him every time he goes out there and not getting results, he needs to go down there and pitch a little bit without the pressure of coming into a big league game and always having to have results. He needs to go down there and take some pressure off himself, because he's a talented guy who's going to pitch for the Diamondbacks for a while. |
This is a team that could have called it in quite some time ago. We just aren't going to, all the way to the end we won't. |
This is something that may be with him a little bit. It's something we're monitoring day-to-day. |
Those are two areas we're going to look at. We have some decisions to make with our free agents obviously. All of this will be talked about in the coming days. |
Those are two games where he comes in and you're looking just to finish the games and all of a sudden he makes them competitive where we have a chance. |
Those games don't feel very good. You usually have one or two a spring. That doesn't mean they feel any better. Defensively, offensively, the whole bit, just a lousy day. |
To finish in second place after struggling in the middle of the season is positive after climbing and clawing back into this is something the organization can feel good about. |
To Lee's credit, he didn't try to do too much with it. He just stayed up the middle. |
To take one here and whack them around a little bit feels pretty good. |
To their credit, they got it right. |
Tony really worked him, and that's as professional an at-bat as you're going to see. When you end up walking the guy, the life comes out of you. . . . Throwing that walk broke his heart. |
Tony really worked him. That's as professional an at-bat as you are going to see. When you walk a guy, there's that second run, and the life kind of comes out of you. |
Tony really worked to draw a walk, and that really broke his heart. |
Trace had a little something going on and I didn't want to mess with it yesterday. There are certain guys that you just can't lose and Trace would be one of those guys. |