Look, if the guy is going to keep hitting a home run a day it would be tough to keep him out of there. |
Maybe by the end of the week he'll be ready to go. |
Maybe he won't go somewhere else. You don't know. If there was a team that wanted a catcher, or needed to upgrade [he would probably get picked up]. It might not even happen. I don't know. |
Maybe it was too routine a play. He's saved us so much through the course of the year. |
Maybe the question is: Are we as good as we're supposed to be? |
Money against money. What else do you want? |
Money player. That's all he is. A money player. |
No, I've heard of that but no, I wouldn't want to make a mockery of this, |
Nobody expected him to be here when he came up, but I think it's done wonders for him. [But] I don't think he's got enough innings under his belt in the Minor Leagues. |
Nobody likes or knows Phillips as much as I do. It's going to be really tough to break [camp with the big-league club], barring an injury. Phillips at least has an out in his contract at the end of spring. He could go somewhere else. He can elect to leave and pursue other teams at the end of Spring Training. He likes it here. He'd love to play here, he said, and he had some other options this winter. |
Not one bit. Not the way we played, ... You play 162 games. They all hurt, but we'll go out of here holding our head high. I'll tell you that. |
Not one bit. Not the way we played. You play 162 games. They all hurt, but we'll go out of here holding our head high. I'll tell you that. |
Now maybe we'll be taken a little more seriously. Now we just have to go out and score a few more runs. I think that's an area that still needs to be addressed. J.P. is working it pretty hard. |
Now we feel we have a chance to do it. But you can talk all you want, until you do it, it doesn't mean a whole lot. |
Obviously, it's a great thing to honor your country and to get that type of experience on such a big stage, but we're a little bit selfish in wanting those guys back as soon as possible. With so many new faces in camp this year, ideally you'd like to have all of them around as much as possible to establish chemistry and continuity in your lineup. But it's a great experience for Vernon, who's getting the most playing time of anyone. |