I've never seen four horses like that that come out of the gate. You might have to go back to Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, that group, or the group Baltimore had in, I guess, '66. |
If anything has changed, it's that it's reinforced our plan that we have two terrific catchers. One has more experience with the staff (Molina), but the other guy could be a special player out of the chute. We need them both. |
If he can monitor some consistency, and we think he will, you're going to put John's name up with the other upper-echelon pitchers in the game. |
If he gets enough at-bats, he will be able to stay sharp to be effective. If he is getting two, three starts a week and then has to come off the bench, then he is going to help us. |
If he helps us pitch three or four games and we win, it will keep the bullpen continuity, ... It carries a lot more weight than if he were to pitch one game on Wednesday. |
If it is a short-term thing, we will probably look in-house. If it is a longer-term thing will have to explore some options. |
If there is a role on our club, then we will strongly consider it. If he is going to stay with us, it will not be swinging the bat just once a week. |
If we can get him around the environment, the confidence that he is going to gain is going to be extraordinary. |
If we can take a little confidence out of tonight and into tomorrow's game, then maybe we can get on a little roll, |
If we had a lineup that had seven guys with the potential to hit 25 to 30 home runs, it would be a bit more sit back and slug baseballs. We don't have that ability. I think it's great. I think it's baseball. I love it. |
If we sit back and get in a slugfest with those guys, it is going to be very, very difficult for us, ... So we need to keep creating offensively and I'm sure they are going to pay attention to try to stop that. |
If we sit back and get in a slugfest with those guys, it is going to be very, very difficult for us. So we need to keep creating offensively and I'm sure they are going to pay attention to try to stop that. |
If you are a championship caliber club, and they are, you have to have that depth. A good team will be able to absorb it and they will. |
If you look at it purely from the organization's standpoint, we'd like Ervin to keep progressing with our catchers, but this is very important: We're not standing in his way. |
If you're around Ozzie, you're laughing most of the time. |