What's enjoyable to watch is how hard they're playing. I'm proud of them. |
What's really enjoyable to watch is how hard they play. We talk about it every day and we have meetings about how hard we're playing. |
When you're talking about a team, it's not always what role you're best suited for, it's what's going to help the club. Clubs need flexibility. |
With our guys, it shouldn't be a problem. They're probably too young to shave anyway. |
You can look at it a couple of ways. [Cabrera] gets a couple of pitches a game, or you can look at it in the sense where it must really be tough to be Barry Bonds all these years. Bonds gets no pitches. Do you want to look at it as half-full or half-empty? |
You can play him in a lot of different spots, and that's what he's going to have to do. He can do some things with the bat. He gives us some different options at the top of the order. |
You could almost see the weight lift off his shoulders. I've said the last few days that his swings were getting better. |
You don't ever think you are going to score 12 runs, but our guys kept hitting. It was a good game. |
You don't ever think you're going to score 12 runs. That's a lot of runs, but guys kept hitting. They got a lot of big hits. |
You don't see camps like this. You have thoughts on who's going to be where, but there are no guarantees. Everything comes down to one big competition. |
You don't want to get too many (doubleheaders). We already got two. We don't want to back them up. |
You don't want to really hurt someone's development. We'll have to make that decision if we think it's beneficial for maybe one of the young starters to pitch out of the bullpen. |
You don't want to see any player ever retire too early or have family issues that takes him away from the game. It's hard to retire. I hope if that's the choice that he made that he's happy with his decision. It's hard to take your uniform off. |
You get an idea what a manager has to go through every day. His is at a very high level. He has situations he has to deal with and the expectations he has to deal with, the personalities he has to deal with. It's a lot. |
You get frustrated because you know they're better than what they're showing. You see it through the course of a game. You just don't see it through nine innings. |