There's no point in saying it yet. |
There's no reason to take a chance. |
There's no such things as 70 wins being a good season. I don't get that. Eighty-one is just OK. Why would we aim so low? I just don't understand that. |
There's no way he will be ready to pitch by Opening Day. He's a very important person to our organization. We want to take our time with him. It's something we're going to be very careful with. |
There's some competition out there, absolutely. We've got to see how it all shakes down toward the end, and I'm not prepared to make any kind of overt statements right now. But there's competition there. |
They are [selective]. [Henderson] preaches [being] selective but aggressive. That's the phrase he likes to use, and it's a good phrase. And it seems like the boys have caught on. We want our guys to be aggressive in the strike zone, be good at drawing walks, but if the ball is one we really like, we want them to get a hack on it. |
They believe we are still in the game as it gets tight and late. There's a good feeling in the dugout. |
They made great impressions. Obviously, they are very gifted. We have so many young players here. I was really impressed with all of them. They are a great group of athletes. |
They swung the bats pretty good today and when we made a mistake, they did not miss it. That's what I saw. And we made several mistakes. |
This group here can score a lot of points, we know that. Once T-Lee hit that homer it kind of picked everyone up. |
This guy has a look going on right now that's attractive. |
This guy has been swinging at strikes and taking balls. That's been the most impressive thing he's done at the plate. The obvious thing was the home run, but he moves really well in the outfield. |
This guy's a baseball player and he'll do anything it takes to get out on that field on a nightly basis. |
This guy's totally balanced. You look at his numbers last year and you see 15 (home runs) and 81 (RBIs). That's going to grow. Then you look at the stolen bases, the defense, the plays he makes in the corner -- he's going to keep growing as a player. |
This is about him, it's not about us. I mean, it will be about us as he becomes better. But he needs to become a better shortstop first, and he knows that. I don't think like two more weeks of Spring Training and one game is a whole lot of difference. I'd rather just stick with our game plan, really. |