If he wants to be back with this team it won't be as part of the starting rotation. He has to see the bullpen as his opportunity. |
If he's made a better play in his life in a baseball uniform, I'd like him to tell us about it. |
If he's tired, we'll ask him, ... But if he's not, this is something he's just got to grind through and get better at. He's got to find a way to repeat his delivery with more consistency. |
If it is a one-time thing, it falls into one category. If it happens again, then it is another (incident to explore). |
If Quintanilla shows up and wins the job, he's going to fill that role. But it's a win-win situation. For him to go to Triple-A for a hundred more at-bats -- I'm sure that's not what he wants to hear -- but I don't think it will hurt him by any means and it could help him. |
If we can go 7-4 every 11 games, we'll be in good shape. |
If we get that kind of effort (one run allowed by Jennings in seven innings) from our starting pitching, we are going to be in good shape. |
If you watch the game, you know why. He's the best defensive catcher we have had here. Defensively, he is a playmaker . . . |
In a perfect world, you bring young players into an environment (like Atlanta), |
In Philadelphia, they said three-quarters of the world is covered by water and the other quarter is covered by Garry Maddox. Every time you looked up, [Sullivan] was in the gap catching a ball, running into a wall, he was on the bases, scoring runs and doing things he's capable of doing when he plays within his skills. |
In San Francisco, they can whoop and holler and hooray for Barry. But here, we want to get him out and win a ballgame. |
Initially we just wanted him to be able to get healthy. And now for him to come back and be able to pitch, that's a plus. |
Initially we stuck him in there because we had run out of options. He is a big kid who has some power and we thought maybe we can find a guy to pick up some run support when they didn't want to pitch to Helton. Obviously he took that opportunity and ran with it. He is a legitimate fourth bat in the lineup. He is not just hitting behind Helton any more. |
It got us going in the right direction. |
It is something we have dealt with since Day 1. You can't recreate that environment. It's just the ability to go out there and slow the inning down as much as you can. |