He's got time to do what's necessary to get us where we need to be. |
He's not worried. He feels he can pinch run right now and maybe hit. |
He's proven himself to be much stronger mentally than he was given for credit for. People thought he couldn't survive without his personal trainer. People thought he couldn't come back from the PR disaster [the steroids controversy] he was in a year ago. |
He's someone that is getting better every year as a prospect. He pushed himself onto our radar screen last year. |
He's such a great player, I'd been surprised at the end of this thing we're not doing something. Let's play this thing through and see where it goes. I'm not saying we'll do anything soon. I'm not saying we're not going to do anything until the very end. I don't know yet. |
He's upbeat; he's a positive man. From my limited experience with Johnny, that's what he always is. He's a bright-side type guy and he feels he's going to be fine and ready and this is [only] a small problem for him. |
He's willing to take the ball but he's probably not going to be effective for us. |
His spirits are up. He seemed happy and he wants to get going. |
Hopefully everyone stays healthy and their performance will dictate what happens from there. Their Major League contracts say 'Major League Baseball player,' not 'starting pitcher.' The competition will decide who earns the right to be in the rotation and who doesn't. |
Hopefully the process that we covered today will help put us in better position to do so. But time will tell. |
Hopefully, this is nothing, but we want to make sure. We have a lot invested in him. |
Hopefully, we won't need more than that. When he's ready, we'll take him. If he's ready before 30 days, great. If he takes the whole 30 days, time will tell. |
I am not worried about my future. |
I can't convince him to pitch; he has to want to pitch. There's nothing for us to do on our end. We expressed our level of interest. |
I can't count how many times Bernie has said the following: I will do whatever the New York Yankees ask me to do to try and help us win. So if Joe Torre and our coaching staff feel that work on the corners is something that will provide more flexibility and more playing-time possibilities for him, then I'm sure they'll discuss that with him. |