Any time you have a guy like Billy Wagner - the quality of that kind of guy - believe me, Met fans in Shea Stadium, when they see Clark Kent coming out of that phone booth in the ninth inning, that's an exciting thing when he puts that cape on. |
Any time you have a lot of time off that's always a concern. It is always a factor, but he's done a lot of throwing (in the bullpen). |
Any time you've got players with these sorts of personalities, they're bound to lighten up the entire mood. It's great for everybody. |
Brian has all those things. For him, it's a lack of experience. |
Chad started throwing that way because he couldn't make his varsity baseball team in high school. |
Firms have been showing strong profit growth by getting by with fewer people, adding computers instead. |
First time out, and he does all that. |
From the first day I've been here, and it's true with everyone, you get linked to your past. But when people ask your opinion of someone that you haven't seen perform for a long period of time, no matter who it is, your opinion has no value. |
He has four pitches that he can locate to both sides of the plate, and that's exciting. You're just excited to see him in competition against big-league hitters and see how they react. |
He has the aptitude to learn that. He understands he has the weapons it takes to flip a line-up three times and not become predictable. |
He still doesn't know how much of the plate he can get. That will come and wait till he sees the results. He pitched a D-plus game and look at those results. |
He was awesome. He was very focused, and he was actually rehearsing sequences. He's not 100 percent, but he's getting there. |
He was getting to the point where he was going to engage the rubber like he does during the season. That was the step we wanted to take today. He took that step and he felt great. |
He'll be ready when he's ready. He's been highly successful, and successful people make good decisions. He won't force the issue. |
He's just not in any kind of rhythm right now. It's all location. He was too much in the middle of the strike zone against an aggressive hitting team. |