We've done a pretty good job of developing our young pitching, but not our position players. |
We've found ourselves significantly behind the Cardinals by the month of May or the middle of May, |
We've found ourselves significantly behind the Cardinals by the month of May or the middle of May. Credit them for how well they get out the gate. Certainly over the winter we'll look at avenues to try to get out of the gate better and maybe approach things differently. |
When Felix comes here, you want him to play a decent amount of time in the outfield. You can't just pull a name out of the hat and say, 'Let's put this guy at first and Felix in the outfield. |
When Felix comes here, you want him to play a decent amount of time. If we had an injury in the outfield, it certainly would've been Felix [who was called up]. He's capable of coming up and performing. |
When Larry came here, he turned down bigger and better deals financially, |
When things don't go as well as we all planned, there's enough fingers to be pointed everywhere, but it's certainly not coming from (management), |
When you have a guy that plays 162 games every year, it makes that guy two stools down think twice about taking a day off. |
Why we're doing it now is to avoid even a sprained ankle that sets back his rehab. |
You can pitch him the whole inning instead of just getting the lefties out. |