It's been a tough season. I'd like the fans to think that things are going to turn around. I'd like for them to think good things about us for next year. That'll be our job this winter, to give them some reasons to believe that. |
It's been like that this whole streak here. The few opportunities we have where we hit the ball real good, somebody makes a nice play on it. |
It's certainly a piece that helps us along the way. We're starting to fill some holes. |
It's certainly something that I've wanted for a long time. I'm tickled to death. We're ready to move forward. |
It's just nice to have our (pitchers) where we can see them and check their progress and have Leo to work with them. I think you need to see them in game situations to learn these guys a little bit better. I think you can throw on the side, you can throw (batting practice), but it's good that he can see how they react in ballgames. |
It's kind of been one of our problems when we aren't winning games. |
It's like a bruise, but it's on a spot they think was an old injury. |
It's not a good thing, and I'm not saying it's understandable either. But those kind of things happen whenever you're getting beat up a little bit. It's still not an excuse; it shouldn't happen. |
It's not necessarily he's lost anything. I would like to see some more offense from a bunch of us. We're like last in the league in the second half in runs scored. That doesn't happen when one guy is not swinging the bat. That happens when a whole bunch of us don't. |
It's not that we didn't want him; it was just a contract situation. |
It's really a terrible rule. It's awfully hard to stay in that lane and touch the bag that's in fair territory. You almost need to be on the line to hit the bag. |
It's reasonable to assume that we expected to get 25-30 home runs and at least 80 RBIs out of him, but it didn't work out that way. It's not from lack of work or trying. There are some other ones on the team, too, who haven't produced as well as we expected. He's not the only one. |
Jorge has a ways to go to get back into that spot for me. He's got to pitch a lot better than he's pitched. I know he'd like to do that again, but he's going to have to earn it. He's done that before so I can't tell you I'd rule him out, but he's got to earn that. |
Let's just be comfortable and happy that we got a good one out of him. I don't want to put too much expectations on the kid -- but you know he has that type of ability. |
Let's just say he's certainly up to the competition he's facing so far. |