He's still very good, ... He's still better than good. But in comparison to last year, that's what I've seen since the end of last season. |
he's the proverbial day-to-day. |
He's the proverbial day-to-day. We'll have to see how he is as we go along. |
His consistent play, his consistent hitting all year long -- and he's played pretty solid defense. He had a period in there where a couple of balls gave him a little bit of trouble, but he's been playing a pretty solid defense. |
His offensive numbers probably aren't what we'd all like to see them be, but he's shown some power, and I think he shows some hits in clutch situations. He's not afraid of anything. He has that little boy in him. |
His only downfall was walking Nuñez, and then he hit Luna with two strikes. You expect when you get in the middle of their lineup they're going to do something. He had them in position to put them away and he didn't do that, and that was unfortunate. |
His shoulder is impaired, there's no question about that from anybody. But definitely, you can make too much of what you see or don't see today. |
His strength is slightly down, but not enough to really be concerned. But we'll watch him and see. I don't even know if that's important, because a lot of times after you pitch your strength might be down. |
Hopefully, that will get worked out and whatever happens, we'll be prepared to go with it. I don't think it's going to have anything to do with how guys are going to go about their business. |
Houston will go crazy and it will be a wonderful thing. |
How do you explain that game? That was like a softball game where everyone on the block gets to play. |
How stupid can it get? You just keep getting shut out, it's just stupid. |
How stupid can it get? You just keep getting shut out, it's just stupid. It's hard to get shut out in today's game. Somebody's going to get a hit, drive in a run. But we're just having a heck of a time with it. |
How stupid can it get? You just keep getting shut out. It's just stupid. It's hard to get shut out in today's game. It just seems like somebody 's going to get a hit to drive in a run. |
I also like the idea of having Bagwell in there, too. . . . There will be a lot of that grinding going on to consider what it's going to be. |