His batting practice has been better. Again, it's so tough coming in here as late as he did and being thrown into the mix. |
His contribution was huge for us tonight. |
His hands are so quick and strong, |
His location was better and he had a lot of jump on his fastball. He threw some good sliders, a couple good forkballs. He was outstanding today. |
His pitch count got to the point where there's no reason to keep him in and basically it didn't look like he was any more comfortable. |
His stuff is as consistent as we've seen, time after time. |
His stuff was good. He's going to win games pitching games like that. |
Home run hitters just get in a groove. They have a real good swing, they see the ball well, and a lot of times, the ball just seems to stop for them. |
Home run hitters just get in grooves. He just seems very locked in right now. Sometimes the ball just stops for him. |
Hopefully it's true. He tries to never have a negative thought. But last year, I even admitted, I was surprised to see the power numbers come back the way they did that quickly. |
Hopefully they don't change managers this week, |
Hopefully they're realize this is spring training and not to go overboard. |
Hopefully we can all do a better job in not having it fester up like it did this year, ... If something happens, address it right now. If you have a question to ask, get it answered right now. |
Hopefully, [Wang will be] a ground-ball pitcher [in Game 2]. That's our goal going in, which is one of the reasons we did it. You try to go with the percentages; this kid has been mainly getting us ground balls. There could be a fair amount of business over there. |
Hopefully, this is the start of something for us. |