We have big stars in our country, and it's tough to trim our roster. There are lots of expectations around our club. I think we're going to fulfill them. |
We have so many stars that the toughest part is getting our roster down to 30 players. |
We left the fear at home. |
We lost our bona fide closer and our No. 1 guy. |
We made the decision it's the best thing for us. He's dying because he wanted to participate so bad, but unfortunately he won't be able to do it. |
We really went at it hard like professionals. They deserve the credit. I'd rather give them credit than make excuses. |
We will using the line up that you saw out there today. It's not time to make big changes. That line up won the last to games for us. |
We're anxious to face Cuba. We've never played them before in this type of competition. |
We're going to play to win, but as managers we also have the responsibility to have these guys ready for the regular season. |
We're pretty excited. He's a guy that is really hurting right now because he's not here. |
We're the ones who are supposed to hit everybody around, but Venezuela didn't let us do that. We showed our hearts, and we are very happy to be in the finals. |
Willie has made it clear that the job is out there for the taking. |
You have to give all the credit to their pitching, which held our offense to only one run. They just flat-out outplayed us. |
You've got to give credit to the kid. He made a good play. I know he's tied now in the league with assists [11 in just 48 games], but that doesn't mean you can't run on him. You take a chance and the guy made a good play. What are you going to do? We took a chance in the next inning and tied up the game, too. |