When these players lose it, they can't control it. It's a physical thing, not a mental thing. He's got the eye of the tiger. When I met with (Sosa), that's the one thing I was convinced of. His brain would do everything it could to succeed because he'd like to prove to people that he can still play. |
When we drafted him we thought he would be 15 to 20 [home runs] early on and eventually he would be 25 to 30 and what you saw this spring he might end up being 30 to 40 with a normal ballpark. |
When you're boxed in, the way you improve is by releasing guys or making trades. |
Whether we win the rest of our games or lose them, it doesn't take away from what we've accomplished. |
Yankee Stadium is real big in left-center field. He had no problems hitting home runs out of there. This guy has always had the power. When we made the deal, everybody kept saying Texas this and Texas that. The reality is, in his career, half of his home runs were on the road. That tells you that he has power regardless of the ballpark. |
You can't ever have enough depth in the bullpen. |
You handle it with lots of discussions about what's best for the team. At the end of the day, when you all know you have the same goal - which is to win - it will work itself out. |
You have to look at it from a global perspective. As we advance baseball in other countries and some day end up with a real World Series, this is a great step in that direction. Hopefully it's a great step long-term from a revenue perspective for our industry. |
You walk into camp with seven guys who can start, and now you're down to six. Then after Wednesday you're down to five. Starting pitching is a concern. Tony's not really a setback. He's going to be under a pitch count. He's going to get the ball on a regular basis like he would get it here. To be honest, I don't see any effect on that. |
Your season's going to be defined in that box. |