Now it's showing you can do it over the course of a year. |
Obviously we've lost a bunch of tough games this year. Then we pretty much got blown out two days in a row. For our guys to bounce back, it says something about our guys. ... Guys picked it up. |
Obviously, we brought him in here to be one of our starters. He has a leg up right now. He's a standup guy. I need him to stand up in the clubhouse. Be who you are. I'm not asking anyone to be any different. I'm asking to be who you are. Don't be afraid to say something if you want to say something. It's your clubhouse. It's your team. |
Oh yeah, probably since I signed as a manager. Because I knew that would probably be the toughest meeting that I had. I had a little practice with the pitchers and catchers. Today, it was the whole squad. |
One of my fears was that with young guys trying so hard to impress us that they are not going to say if they feel something. My fears kind of came out. |
Our bullpen has been pretty good, but tonight we failed Vargas. |
Our guys are young and they are going to bounce back. Young guys bounce back. |
Our guys are young and they're going to bounce back. They know they have to prove themselves every day in this league. They have to learn how to play the game at this level and it's not something that happens overnight. |
Our guys buckled down, came back and we had a chance to win. Eventually, our guys are going to win those games. |
Patterson lived on the outside corner and came in when he had to. He didn't give our guys much to hit. |
People don't see the ball, they don't have good swings on him. I can't really tell you exactly why, but there's some deception to him. Some of it might be his height, some of it might be the downhill plane all the time, but there's deception to him and I really like it. |
Pokey obviously has the experience. But you look at Hanley and Robert -- two up-and-coming shortstops that can play defensively right now. We'll see how they progress offensively now and during the season. We're pretty fortunate to have two guys like that. |
Pokey went home. There are probably some issues that he wanted to deal with. I'm respectful of that. I just told him to call me when [he gets] a chance. |
Seventeen days in you can't keep making the same mistakes. You can't just work your butts off and throw it away because you want to do too much. |
Since high school I've wanted to do this. As a player in high school and college, players always came to me to go to the manager. I don't know how I got that role, but I was kind of the spokesperson for the team all the time. I enjoyed it. I enjoy the competition, and I love studying the game. I think that's why I was born to manage. |