Will we get to that in the last two weeks of the season? We'll get to it. |
Wilson has got a lot on his mind, and he's trying to sort through a lot of difficult things. He's got to mentally take some time and sort some things out. |
With a couple of adjustments that he's made [to his delivery], some of the things that we've seen on the field thus far have been eye-popping. |
With a young kid you can't take everything you've got and fire it at him, ... You'll short-circuit the guy. |
With everything we had going on (Wednesday), I didn't want to overdo it because I'm a firm believer that too much information too quickly can short-circuit people. We took it very slowly and made sure everything was understood. |
With our cut-down (Tuesday), we are getting closer and closer to what some things are supposed to look like. The tone of the games now in spring training has changed a little bit due to the fact that some of the regular guys are staying around a little bit longer. |
With the exception of a couple of hitters, he's ahead of everybody. I can think of two pitches he threw that didn't go precisely where he wanted them to go. That's pretty special. |
With the little bit of conversation I heard that took place between Sean and (head trainer) Brad Henderson, you knew it was something more than a guy getting the wind knocked out of him. Each of the first three times he got up, he felt shooting pains going down his back. |
With what we have here right now, ... you'll see the landscape change and be better than what the perception is. |
Would [health] have made us a 90- to 95-win club? No, |
You better believe he's having a terrific spring. He has a chance to be a real player at the major-league level. |
You can nitpick all you want, but one run isn't going to get it done. We played hard. There was no lack of effort. We needed a timely hit. We weren't able to get it done. |
You can't ask a group of players to play any harder than they have for two days and, especially tonight, take the kind of at-bats that we took all night long. |
You can't have a better at-bat. He hit the [heck] out of the ball down the first-base line and Niekro was in the spot where he needed to be or that would have been a three-run double. |
You can't help but be pleased by what you saw out there. As a matter of fact, it's too bad that we didn't have additional pitching that could stay out there longer. That's how much fun I was having. |