Let's see how we need him. |
Luis Matos is still in the mix. Nobody has the job yet. |
Managing in the big leagues is a challenge. I knew that from the get-go. Would I prefer it wouldn't be this way? Absolutely. Am I sorry about it? Absolutely not. |
Manon was a closer, so I can see him pitching in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings. We'll see how he does. |
My biggest concern is that Sidney gets the proper help and gets healthy and gets his life in order. I touched base with him (Wednesday), he actually called and thanked me for everything, all the support. He said he'd keep in touch me and I wished him good luck and asked him to please keep in touch with me. |
Obviously, Chris showed a little rust from five days off. The main thing was he battled through it and [got] us a win. He's the closer. He's supposed to go ahead and finish that thing. He was going to be there until they tied it or won it. |
On this team, he's going to play most of the time until he shows that he can't. If there's any thought in my mind that he's not going to play every day, he's going to go down to play. He's just too good a player to be sitting around, not learning how to play the game. |
Once you establish a track record like his, a pitcher would have be a fool not to listen. |
Right now he's just going to sit on the bench. We'll evaluate how others are doing. We may bring someone else up. |
Sooner or later, we're going to get their hits. But we need them sooner than later right now. |
That last pitch was as gutsy as I've ever seen anybody throw. That was a 3-2, bases-loaded slider. If I was a hitter, I'm certainly not looking for that pitch. |
That particular day, he tried to do so well that he was overthrowing. He has a tremendous desire to do well. |
That was a tough loss. There are two things left to do: You can walk away from here with your tail between your legs, or you can pick it up and go after them tomorrow. We're going to choose to pick it up and go get 'em. |
That was just a great game. The guys showed no quitting whatsoever and battled back. We had some guys come up with some big hits for us. |
That was obviously a big play. He said it was his fault...It was more of a mental mistake. |