He showed what a true champion he was today. |
He started doing it last year -- it was something that Jim worked with him last year. His whole demeanor and he's working with a better tempo. He's done that. Along with that, he's throwing strikes, too. |
He struggled with his command a little bit. He looked good on some pitches, real good on some pitches. Then he struggled a little bit. |
He threw all of his pitches, and I thought he looked like he was throwing the ball pretty good. I think he looks like he's OK. |
He threw the ball down, threw some good breaking balls and went after the hitters pretty good. He had a little mental lapse there. He got behind on a guy and gave up a home run. If we keep him focused and throw like that he'll be fine. |
He threw the ball really well and had a pretty nice fastball that he located pretty good, and he just stayed with it. It was an usually pitched game. You don't see a guy use primarily fastballs, but he was locating it where he wanted to and he stayed with it. |
He threw the ball well. He was experimenting with different things, and I think that's a good thing. |
He threw the ball well. I was very pleased. He had good mound presence, threw the ball over the plate and after probably six or seven pitches, it looked like he said, 'Alright I'm going at them,' and he did. He just settled right in. He didn't go deep in the count a lot of times. He went right after them and made them do something. |
He threw to one hitter [in the tournament]. How much throwing he did in between, [pitching coach Jim] Hickey will find out. He's not ready to throw very much, I don't think. He missed 10 days. So I don't know how much throwing he's done. I didn't get a chance to talk to him last night because he was sick. So we'll see where is, we'll find out where he is and go from there. |
He throws the ball real good. |
He told me he felt a lot better today. So I assume he's on track [to pitch Sunday]. |
He tolerated it pretty well. That's exactly want we wanted him to do, the 40-50 pitch range. |
He wants to and I want him to, ... I think he'd just like to know where he stands. He needs to be on the mound to see where he is. |
He was better than anybody I had on my Detroit staff. He could have helped us. |
He was dominating. He did a super job for us. |