It's a different team in two ways. One, we don't have Carlos Beltran , Jeff Kent and Jeff Bagwell . On the flip side, we didn't have a healthy Andy Pettitte (last year). ... I'd like to assemble a team with last year's lineup and this year's pitching. |
It's a great deal of concern for us, a very powerful storm. |
It's going to go down to the last week, |
It's good to get your feet wet in a little bit of a sloppier situation rather than a one-run game or a tie game. We had a five-run lead, so we had to attack the hitters and force them to earn their way on base. I'm not going to try and trick them. And that kind of plays in hand to what Taylor does generally anyway. |
It's nice for those guys that I played with to see me now, to see how I've evolved, |
Jeff's very realistic. If he comes in here and two weeks into it he can't swing the bat or he's back to where he was last year, swinging the bat and it turns to pain, I think he would say, 'I'm not able to play.' Barring that, I think he has every intention of playing this entire year. |
Not only to get the strikeout and get out of the inning, but you don't have to worry about facing Albert with the bases loaded. |
Once we start the game, my focus is on baseball, |
Our bullpen is definitely deeper (than last year), ... Guys like Chad Qualls and Dan Wheeler were kind of feeling out what roles they would have, but they established early in the season that they would be legitimate late-inning guys. |
Our bullpen is definitely deeper (than last year). Guys like Chad Qualls and Dan Wheeler were kind of feeling out what roles they would have, but they established early in the season that they would be legitimate late-inning guys. |
People don't understand that pain he has played with. It's not simple pain. It's the kind of pain people associate with an injury. |
Roger, as we know, is a classic leg-driving power pitcher. Sometimes when you have a leg problem, you compensate with your arm for a couple of innings. But then you notice it and it can lead to shoulder problems. |
She's part of the reason he came here to pitch. |
That might have been more relief. It was an outstanding ending to a very hard-fought game. |
The last two weeks, ... is like water torture. You play, and you look at the scoreboard and try to figure out where it all falls. Time just seems to crawl. |