Any time he goes out there, you know you can count on him, ... If you look at the last couple of years, he's always won for us but he's been kind of the odd man out, but he forces his way in there and knows how to win. |
Any time you lose a Gold Glove, that's a hit. But that allowed us to make that trade. We saw Hill play enough second base, and he was good. If we had any doubts, that might have changed our mind about making a move or not. |
Anytime he goes out there, you know you can count on him. You look at the last couple years here, and he's always won for us. But he's always been the odd man out, too. He just forces his way in there, comes out and wins. There's something to be said for guys that are winners. |
As good as the team has played he feels if he's around we're that much better. That frustrates him, he's the leader of the pitching staff. |
At the end of a long year, we played two of the top teams pretty darn good. |
At this stage of the game we've got come out of it over .500, no question, ... Boston's rolling, the Yanks aren't going to fold and the wild card's all bunched up. We definitely need a good trip. |
Baseball's a gamble. We went for the top two guys out there. We're banking on them. And they're banking on us. |
Beckett settled in, and can really overpower you when he throws strikes. |
Believe it or not, you get some of those veteran pitchers and they can get in some jams and come up with a pitch here or there. |
Both were dealing. Bush has pitched so good lately and got nothing to show for it. |
Brian and I are friends, and we throw a lot together, ... Whoever wins the spot, we'll be supportive of each other. If he gets it, I would be OK with that. We pull for each other. |
Bush was outstanding tonight. He had a good breaking ball. He had that hard crisp one. We definitely needed that, no question. |
But he'll learn from that and some day he'll look back at this and laugh. |
But if you've been paying attention and seen what he has done, he has got a pretty good argument on his side. |
But it's his first year and he has done a pretty damn good job. |