Simply put, Matt Morris is a winner. He's a gamer who not only gives his team a chance to win every time he pitches, but as his record indicates he's around to collect the win himself. Matt will be a perfect complement to the top of the rotation and provide valuable leadership to our younger pitchers. |
Simply put, Matt Morris is a winner. He's a gamer who not only gives his team a chance to win every time he pitches, but as his record indicates, he's around to collect the win himself. Matt will be a perfect complement to the top of the rotation and provide valuable leadership to our younger pitchers. |
Spring training was a long time ago. He could be starting from ground zero as far as the baseball activities. |
Steve is a player that can win games in many ways -- with his bat, his glove and his knowledge. He will give Felipe many options in the outfield as well as provide great veteran presence. |
Taking batting practice is one thing, and taking fungoes and running the bases at 50 percent, |
The first thing that comes to mind is we might have dodged a bullet of losing Scott. This guy has got quite a track record. |
The great thing about him was last year when he was tested in the first half, then [we saw] the second half he had. He had a great work ethic, and every time he goes out, he gives us a chance to win. |
The lesson learned is you're not going to survive a 2-15 stretch. When that happens early, you've really dug yourself a hole. I can't say I saw it coming, and it buried us. And what we did out of the division really hurt us. |
The more you see of the old Jason Schmidt, the more you want to sign him. We need him to get through 200 innings. |
The opportunity was great, the timing wonderful. |
The organization has no comment or opinion until we talk to Barry directly. There's no need. It's a non-issue. |
The reason the moves were made, ... was we think the players we brought in will give us a better chance to win now. If what they do bodes well for next year, fine. |
There are a lot of brilliant people in all walks of life. That doesn't make you a manager of people. Our jobs are about managing people, crisis management on a daily basis. If you don't have people skills or the experience, things can snowball. |
They worked on him yesterday and found he wasn't getting much better. |
They'll be allowed to come into camp early, and the only people (who'll miss that much time) are people who play for the final two teams. I don't know if there will be a big question about Barry's knee. He's agreed to play as a DH, which is a different ballgame. We'll take it one step at a time and check off all the boxes. |