He's starting to do his thing. |
He's still in the hands of the trainers and doctors. When we're given the green light, we'll stick him in there. |
He's swinging the bat now, no question. He's starting to sting the ball. |
He's the guy we hope will be the opening-day guy. Two of the three years he's pitched for me, he hasn't been healthy enough to be my opening day guy. |
He's throwing harder. His first several fastballs had a lot of life. |
He's thrown a lot of pitches all year. I'm worried a bit about him, just personally. |
He's thrown the ball well in Los Angeles, and we are trying to win games - that's another factor. |
Here, it is not a developing situation. Not yet. If a guy gives up five or six runs in two innings, I'm taking him out. I don't care who the guy is. |
His delivery kind of left him for one pitch or two, but then he got it back. That's a good sign. With him, he's either good or bad, and today he was able to address his problem. Before, if he got a bad hitter or two, things got out of hand. |
His delivery left him for one or two pitches, but he regained it right away. That's a good sign. |
His hand-eye coordination, I have not seen anybody but Ted Williams that was like that. |
His legs look OK. He is swinging with a good base. Last year, I didn't see that very often. I haven't seen any favoring of the knee in two days. |
Howard is impressive. He moves well around the bag. He's a David Ortiz-type man. |
I always knew we had a shot, but a long shot. |
I believe he'll pitch very well for us next summer. There are similarities with Eyre -- that same lefty mentality with a nasty slider. |