In this business and the way the contracts are, you've got to keep moving and you've got to keep adding players you can keep two or three years. He's probably not going to get an opportunity to start unless it's an emergency. |
Is it worth it to start him one more time or two more times? I don't know if it's in our best interests to do that. |
It boils down to being able to harness that. On a given day, Kip can do it. On another day, he can't do it. |
It feels good to play them tough, not have them clinch against us. We didn't make it easy for them. |
It was a really well pitched game on his part. He certainly pitched well enough to win. He's got two more starts this year and I think he's going to finish up strong. |
It was not a very pleasant outing for the team. I don't know what else to say. It's very disappointing. |
It would have been nice to win the first one. You do everything you can think of to put guys in position to score some runs, to have the pitchers out there who give you the best chance of winning and hope they pull it out. |
It's a bottom-line business. Get the job done. I don't care how you do it but you've got to get it done. |
It's a shame. That's as well as we've seen Mark pitch in a long time. |
It's a skill position. It's not easy to throw the ball where you want to. On given days, he can do it. On other days, he can't. |
It's hard to watch when he's not on. But when he's on, it's really nice to watch because you can see the potential there. I don't know if he was at his best tonight, but he was close. If he can do that seven out of 10 times, you've got something there. |
It's important he plays, but not to the point that he's totally frustrated. It looks to me like he's close to being totally frustrated. I'm going to try to look after him a little bit. He's really not helping the team at this point in time. |
It's one of those games our guys can get really excited about. They can feel awfully good about beating a Hall of Fame pitcher. |
It's tough to bring in a guy for his Major League debut with the bases loaded. But I figured everything will be downhill after that. Ollie wasn't throwing strikes, and I figured that was the best way to go at the time. |
Josh has been here a few years now and we know what he's capable of doing. Although we'd like to win as many games as we can to finish out the season, we still have to think about next year. |