[Gordon] is in great shape. This guy is in tremendous condition. We don't see any decline in his talent. |
A year from now you can ask me that. My job is to try to coach and make people better. |
Arthur helps strengthen our bullpen, which is one of the areas we felt needed to be addressed. |
At 3 years, we felt really comfortable, |
Bobby and John kind of came from the same background, |
Charlie's a good baseball man and he's been around the game for a long time, ... He can evaluate players mentally and physically. A lot of managers can't do that. |
Coming into spring training, I didn't really have any expectations for [Floyd], because he didn't have a real good 2005 and didn't pitch well in winter ball. |
Ed Wade put together the foundation of a good ball club here, |
Everybody needs pitching. There's not a lot of pitchers out there, ... So supply and demand. |
Everybody sits at home and gets the advantage of replays. If they want to huddle together for five minutes to get the play right, they could replay it in the same period of time or a shorter period of time and get it right. |
Everybody's looking for pitching and there's not a lot of pitching out on the market. Consequently, it's economics. |
Everyone is all smiles today. I want to go home smiling 100 times this year. That's only 16 times a month. |
Fans here are rabid, ... It's important that you connect to them. |
Given the situation, it's really a chance for everybody to show what they can do. He's been good both offensively and defensively. It's a good opportunity for him to show what he can do. |
Going to a fourth year as the Mets went to, we didn't feel that comfortable, |