About 95 percent of skateboarders worldwide are not vert riders. They don't have vert ramps around. It's easier to ride the streets. |
All of those guys competed equally. Any of them wouldn't have been a bad choice. From start to finish, Hancock was the most consistent throwing strikes. |
All the pitches they got hurt on were belt high. I don't like it, but I understand it. Next time out, we hope to be seeing guys take another step forward, making more quality pitches, get them in that mode. |
And the books and spreadsheets help me avoid some traps. I have a tendency to remember bad things more than good things – the one drive into the corner in left rather than the 10 flies to left-center that are caught. |
Arm-wise, he looks all right. It would be nice if we would be able to see him some more before he leaves. If somebody were to ask me, 'Do I think he's in condition to pitch?' it would be a bare minimum of work that he would have to put in to be ready. |
As I told Flores, if we were playing a different team, we may have gone a different direction. |
As much as I could, I tried to stay apart from his career. |
At the same time, these guys are going to have to step up and be the pitchers they were the majority of the season for us to have a successful postseason. |
Basically, yesterday he felt better than he did the day before. And today he felt better than he did yesterday. So we had him warm up to see whether he could go. |
But due to the destructiveness of the explosion, we can't precisely identify what happened. |
Delgado was very aggressive and swung at balls that weren't strikes. There was no need in that situation to throw him a strike. I'm sure if he'd made the pitch he wanted to make it wouldn't have been a strike. |
From here on out he's going to start seeing more situations like that and he's going to be facing big lefthanders. And he's going to have to be ready to start getting them out. |
Getting them all the amount of work necessary is important as long as the three of them are still competing for the job. We're going to try our best to give them equal opportunity. We'll figure out a way to do it. |
Granddad. These kids deserve all that they get from this sale. They work really hard, and I'm happy to help them in any way I can. |
He can have a big year. If he continues to go like he's been going so far, he can have a very big year. He's real smooth. Under control. It's exciting to think about the type of year he could have if he keeps going the way he's been going. |