the thing sat up and hissed at us, with those nasty teeth showing. We had guys running out of its way. |
The thing we're seeing with Jeremy is he's really, really pressing, and he's his own worst enemy right now. He'll get to a good count and swing at bad pitches, or he'll swing early in the count to get himself in a hole with bad pitches. |
The tournament there starts March 3, which is earlier than it starts here. It wouldn't make much sense for him to fly here, then fly back. |
The umpire totally overreacted. The ball slipped out of the kid's hand. He got in at 11:30 the night before, it was his first game. He's not throwing at anyone. |
The way he's thrown and the starts that he's had have been absolutely outstanding. He has been better than we really expected him to be. Like anybody else, when he's on the mound, I look forward to watching him pitch. |
The way we gave up those five runs after there were two out had something to do with that. We'd scored three runs, but that took the momentum away from us and we struggled to get it back. What surprised me was the way Joel completely lost control of the strike zone. It was like somebody turned a light switch off. |
The wheels just came off. |
There are a couple of ways for us to go. We haven't really had time to sit down and talk it out. |
There are going to be two or three times a year where a game like this happens, |
There are some specific things we wanted to talk to Felix about. They're more mental things than anything else. |
There was a lot of good, a little bit of bad, and everybody came through it healthy. |
There was a time in there that Felix seemed to get it back together for a while. But he kept hanging breaking pitches that got fouled off. Barajas finally got one and hit it out. |
There was no discussion of limiting his innings. And you saw what happened to him. |
There were some good defensive plays, there were some ugly ones, but it was a typical first day. We swung the bats pretty well, and that was good to see. I didn't like to see so many balls thrown by our pitchers. |
There's a lot of differences with this club than last year. There's more outward energy. The club last year had energy, but it was more internal. Guys are expressing themselves more openly and there's a camaraderie here that we didn't have at all last year. All these are positive things, but I emphasize that it's still early. |