I'm pleased. I've had a chance to work with Jim Tracy quite a bit in the past and have seen his style and approach to teaching, his attention to detail. |
I'm still comfortable in what we have in-house. |
I'm very pleased. I think there's been a lot of hard work by a lot of people. This is not solely about one guy, but I certainly am appreciative. |
I'm very pleased. We're very much looking forward to Jody being a member of the Pirates' organization in 2006 and beyond. |
I've been very impressed. He's a done a very nice job. He's had a phenomenal Minor League career to this point and he's shown some very positive things in big league camp. I think the experience has been good for him. I think he's got a bright future. |
I've been very pleased and, while each one is an individual case, there are some real strong signs that guys are making progress. |
I've had experience with Pete in the past with the Montreal Expos and here with the Pirates as a Minor League manager and as a bench coach. I feel confident that Pete will handle things fine for the rest of the season. |
I've had long discussions with Jim about this, and we're on the same page. Craig Wilson is a valuable guy to us because of his versatility and the fact that he's performed in the past. |
If he continues to work on the hitting, the power will be there. |
In a perfect world, you'd like to have everybody (in spring training), pitching normal pitch counts. But that's part of the adjustment that every major-league team has to make. |
In a perfect world, you'd like to have everybody here and healthy and pitching the normal amount of outings. Obviously this year is different -- with every team. |
In retrospect, it was a mistake. If I had it to do all over again, we certainly wouldn't have (not protected Shelton). As we are now seeing it, the power is obviously there with him. |
It definitely can be a serious matter. There's always a concern in regards to clots, aneurysms, things like that. Evidently, we moved on it very quickly. ... I really compliment our doctors from the standpoint of detecting this. |
It doesn't appear that way. It seems to be different issues. |
It shows he's rusty and needs more time. |