I'd rather not [have the Cardinals celebrate] here, of course. Our whole thing is just to win. If it does happen here, I hope they don't have me come over and clean it up. |
I'll do what I got to do. |
I'll just take the same. Everybody asked if last year was a career year. I don't believe in career years. Once you do it once and find your formula, you should be able to do similar. He knows what he's doing now. He has an idea. He knows how to make adjustments quickly. He's very consistent. He recognizes very quickly what the opposition is trying to do to him and he knows his own limitations. |
I'll talk to them all together and come up with something before we leave from here. This is a team thing. It's not an individual thing. That's how I'll treat it, as a team thing. |
I'll think about it when the time comes. My thing is if I can keep it simple, don't distract my team, and if the team wins, everything else takes care of itself. |
I'll use the DH as long as I can until the end of spring, when the pitchers will be going far enough to hit. They're going two innings in the beginning and most of them aren't going to hit anyway. Once they get going four, five innings, I'll start using the pitchers. Initially, I'll try to DH whenever I can to get guys at-bats. |
I'm always conscious of getting off to a good start. [Not having] Mark Prior and Kerry Wood doesn't make it any easier. |
I'm at a point where it's not like I'm negotiating from where I started. I started out making $200,000 [as a manager]. |
I'm counting on him. I just don't know when we're counting on him. |
I'm glad for Jim, big time. It's business as usual for me. |
I'm going to talk to them all together. Come up with something before we leave from here. It might go to Sunday, but it probably won't go that far. |
I'm hoping we don't need him. We'll worry about Wednesday when we get there. |
I'm just glad it was muscle and nothing else, |
I'm looking for health, I'm looking for bat speed, I'm looking for leg speed. It's hard to compare a youngster to a veteran player in Spring Training. The advantage always goes to the young player. There are some things I'm looking for. You want to see progress as spring goes on. I've got a pretty good idea of what he can do. I'm looking for what's left. |
I'm not going to tell him to be careful. I'm just going to tell him to play. |