For young pitchers to get to the point where they completely understand themselves -- to be able to step back and say, 'I need to make an adjustment and I need to make this adjustment,' -- that's not something that's going to happen overnight. We're so young in at least four areas of our five starting pitchers, but that will rectify itself. |
From my end, the biggest thing was the personnel factor and the evaluation of those players, ... I just felt very strongly that the right thing to do would be to move on. |
From the first-base side, when he throws his sinker and misses with it, it becomes more of an unhittable pitch, |
Giving up four or five runs through five innings with your starter ... that's a lot of runs to give up and expect to win. |
Go ahead and take that gun. What was important was the life of the pitch when it's entering the hitting area. That was as good as I've seen him. |
Good at bat, Jason, ... I just love watching you up there with Runners in Scoring Position. |
Having been there myself a year ago, seeing some of these champagne parties is pretty painful, ... To the point where I don't want to watch. |
Having someone teaching our infielders who has learned from someone as respected as Perry Hill, that means a lot. |
Having the lead changed the way we go about our business. We weren't playing catch up. You can't hope to slug your way back into games. |
He (Perez) was throwing the ball better as the game went on. It's unfortunate we couldn't win. I don't look at this as a bad beginning. |
He can go get a ball and make it look easy and effortless. I want to see how versatile a player he is, but he will have a home at third base for some time. |
He could hardly lay still. That's how much pain he was in. |
He deserved a much better fate. |
He deserves to be the first pitcher on the mound when we open the home schedule. I think our fans will be happy to see Zach. |
He did not catch the ball. |