His stuff has gotten better each time out. What that tells me is his arm is quicker than it has been. Last year at the end and in Spring Training, he wasn't showing the quick arm that I remember seeing. He has done everything we asked him to do and that's really what the conditions were. We need a fifth starter and he's going to be that guy. |
His tempo, his motions, everything. It just seems like he's grown up. |
Hopefully, it is no more than a week. |
Howell was awesome. He threw everything pretty much where he wanted to, |
I am. I can't say enough about the Minor League staff and the Major League staff. They've just been terrific, they've made it so easy for the players. We had had situational stuff today and it was upbeat with a lot of energy. That shows we were able to get a lot done. |
I can't explain it -- we've had to go to them so often just because our starters haven't gone deep into the game as we need them to. All of them seem to respond when we need it the most. Snyder and Camp did a good job, guys that are not necessarily at the back of the bullpen. [They are] middle guys that had to a little more than we normally ask them to. |
I can't tell you, because I need to talk to the player first. It's probably not going to be a surprise. |
I don't know how Costa is. I know there's a really good chance that Costa is probably going to go on the disabled list. |
I don't know how many times we've done that. It has happened a lot. |
I don't know how serious it is. Hopefully, it is not the kind that will keep him out two or three weeks. We have to be careful. |
I don't know how we'll handle that. I don't know if we'll take an extra position player or keep it at 12. |
I don't know what he did when he went down to Triple-A, but there was just the feeling that he knew he could pitch up here. ... He's just been a completely different guy. |
I don't know what to say. We didn't swing the bats. |
I don't know what to say. When you don't get innings out of your rotation, it's always going to come back to haunt you. That's been the case the last couple of days. |
I don't really care a lot about errors. It is the range, the balls you should get to. If you don't, it adds pitches to the pitcher's pitch count. It adds runners. It is so disruptive. A lot of people don't understand that. |