Everything we've seen from him this spring has been positive. These guys are making it really hard on me. |
For the most part, I was pretty happy with what I saw. He's got a great chance at being one of the starters. As time goes on, we'll continue to evaluate all the people we have in camp as possible starters. He's throwing the ball well. |
For the young players, you're going to need to go play, and you're not going to play here. |
Fortunately we have names on the jerseys. |
Fortunately, we have names on the jerseys. |
Great hitters are able to do that. They're still going to drive in 120 runs. You're not going to walk a guy 700 times. That would be a record. |
Guys are just doing the little things, taking advantage. And our two-strike at bats the first two days have been tremendous. |
Guys here will get a lot of playing time. We're going to have to make it work, that's all. It's an opportunity for somebody. |
Hanley got the big base hit. It's a situation where you might bunt but I wanted to find out if he could hit to the right side to get him over. He showed me that he could and he set up the two-run inning as opposed to the one-run inning (with the base hit). |
He bounced back in a big way. |
He came out there and threw strikes. |
He came to me because he was concerned about getting thrown out at second. I told him he did the right thing. You need to tell them when they do the right thing. Reggie understands that he's big and strong, but he's also a speed guy, and he has to use that. |
He had good stuff, but Howard beat him. |
He has an attitude when he goes out there, and that's what you want from a pitcher. When you think of all the great pitchers that have come before his time, they all have got an attitude. Some are a little more meek about it. But they all have an attitude. |
He has made the adjustments. He will look bad on a breaking ball and then he will get a hit on a breaking ball. |