Willy, that's his game, ... He creates problems. |
Winning is absolutely fantastic, |
With guys like him that are so in tune with their swings, they know something's off, and it can be something quite as simple as the hands. Once they get it figured out, the confidence level shoots way up and once their confidence level shoots up and they've corrected the mechanical flaws, you can get results like this. |
You always feel like that he's a guy that's going to help you win late in the game. That's one of the traits that's hard to find in a player. |
You can be so close, ... yet so far away. |
You can live with some strikeouts when you're going to have a lot of power. |
You can't walk him, |
You could call it that. I hope nobody knows about him for a while. If nobody pays attention, you can quietly go about doing your job. |
You don't want everyone hot all at the same time unless it's the last week of the season. You need to be able to win ball games without everyone being hot. |
You don't want to dig yourself a hole we can't get out of. It looked like we'd done that last year, and it turned out we played our best ball the last part of May through the rest of the year. |
You don't want to get down to a position (in which you need Lidge). It's also a game you don't want to let go. |
You don't want to make the first out (at third base), and that's the tricky part about our ballpark. When the ball's hit well off that left-field wall and if it comes straight down, you have to be careful because it's not that far of a throw to third. |
You feel like there's a little higher call that you're playing for. It takes away from the personal anxiety and makes it an inspirational thing. |
you figure out a way to come out and try to win a ball game. |
You have to let Edmonds hit the ball. You can't walk him and [catcher] Brad [ Ausmus ] knows that ... and that was a mistake. |