I think we had a little bit of help tonight, |
I think you have to ... take an MRI on every pitcher that you acquire in a trade or free agency - the elbows, knees and shoulders. That's the only way you're going to be able to look at the elbow and shoulder and knees, and get a pretty good idea of what's in there. |
I thought he handled [the first hit-by-pitch] well, and I was very proud of him. And I couldn't blame him on the second one. All I wanted him to do was drop the bat. |
I thought overall it was a very good year. We had a good first half and a terrible second half. In spring training, if you asked people what would you be happy with, I think they would have said they would be happy with a .500 record. |
I want to get him in the lineup, I want to give us the best chance we can to win, ... Watching him have a couple of good at-bats, watching him field ground balls and things, I think he'll be all right there. I've been told he can play shortstop, so it's not really foreign to him. All I'm asking him to do is make the routine plays. |
I wanted to take a look at him at shortstop. It could work, but I don't know the next time he'll be out there. |
I was looking at Patterson and I had the feeling that he wasn't right, ... I didn't like his mannerisms on the mound. Since he didn't say anything, I thought he was OK and he would get himself straightened out. |
I was surprised and taken aback that he was using steroids, because I never thought about him being a person that might be a steroids user. I always admired him for the way he went about his work, the way he performed on the field and the way he conducted himself off the field. |
I was surprised that we had that type of success against him because he's been tough. He didn't seem to have the answer today. |
I wasn't going to sit there and wait until he threw the game away in the first inning. You're going to pitch for me, you've got to throw strikes. |
I wish that would be it, ... That's not even going to pay the taxes on it. |
I would have liked for him to be a little better out there, a little sharper, and gotten the hitters out a little easier. But things weren't there. |
I'd certainly prefer to finish fourth than finish fifth. There's a stigma to that: last. 'You finished last, last year.' And after the start we had, ... that just kind of throws cold water completely on the whole season right there. |
I'd like to see them play sharper, more alert, and for the defense to play good, clean baseball. |
I'll take that double he ran into a single. |