If anybody deserves this it's him. He's really worked himself into where he'll be pitching Opening Day for us. He'll be our No. 1 starter and obviously that's an honor that he's not going to take lightly. |
If anyone had the right to show up not in the greatest spirits, it would be him. He was anything but. He's played well. He focused on what he had to do. |
If anyone was going to show up here looking like the odd-man out and not being in the greatest of spirits, it could've been him. He has been anything but that. He's played well, focused on what he's had to do and had a smile on his face. |
If he was a starter, I'd be a little bit more concerned. He's a reliever and we've got plenty of time to get him ready. |
If he's a guy we feel we need to go after, we'll go after him. If I feel he's a guy in a particular situation we need to pitch around, I'll pitch around him. |
If I can give El Duque another day I'm going to give him another day. I think a lot of times guys benefit from it especially late in the year. |
If it doesn't hit his glove, it probably goes through and we get a double play. |
If we finished the year at a 2.60 ERA, I'd probably be surprised. But certainly, that was something that everyone was kind of looking at to be our Achilles' heel right away. And so far, six games into the season, we feel pretty good about where our pitching is. |
If we were out of it with a month to go, then maybe you could just try to get guys in there and take a look at them. It's kind of a Catch-22. . . . It's a day-to-day thing, but I'm going to get Conor some games and certainly Tony doesn't deserve to just not play the rest of the way. |
If you are going to get an off day, as much pitching as you can use in this ballpark, it probably works well. |
If you told me it would have been a one-run game like that toward the end, I probably would have bet you. It was two different games. Early on, everybody swung the bat good and hit the ball hard. And then later on, defense and pitching came into play. |
If you've watched him with the position players, it's not that surprising he can hit balls over the backdrop in center field. He has the right approach, as he showed going the other way. He's just way beyond his years. |
If [Vargas] goes out and does what he did in the middle of last season, and Halsey goes out and shows you what he did late-April through June, you're going to have a tough battle. |
In a year when we've shuffled quite a few things in the bullpen, this guy's really emerging as a guy going into next year you look at to pitch deep innings. He's a very high-energy guy out there, likes to be out there and has that look in him that he's going to get you out. |
In his last couple of years here, he really matured as a pitcher. The success he had in that 01' World Series game was huge. It catapulted him to bigger and better things. |