We shut Hansen down with a dead arm, ... We are going to be conservative with him. We're not even in the playoffs, so that's getting ahead ourselves to think he could be there. |
We spend as much time and energy developing Zink as we do all our pitchers. (Throwing a knuckleball) is a way to get big-league hitters out if you do it the right way. So we don't look at those guys as circus freaks or anything like that. They're just doing it a different way. |
We started talking to the Padres about a week ago, casually at first. It picked up a little bit of steam after the game in Cleveland. |
We think he brings something to the table for us now and something, we hope, for the future. We think there's plenty of upside left, that he has a chance to further adapt into a full-time player. |
We think he's above average offensively and defensively at a premium position. |
We think investing in Coco Crisp is a wise move. On behalf of the organization, this provides us a little bit of cost certainty going forward and the flexibility to have five years, if we want him, and not have to deal with free agency. |
We think investing in Coco was a wise move. |
We think it might be similar to the dead arm a lot of pitchers experience in spring training. He was inactive for a couple months before his signing, so this is similar to late March (in his timetable). We're just going to be conservative, as we would be with any first-year player. |
We trust this guy's makeup. He's a guy we're very comfortable with on the mound. |
We want to be the type of organization that gets in there every single year, ... That's our plan. We've done it so far. But there are no guarantees. |
We want to win 95 games next year and get back into the postseason. We want to try to do that every year, |
We were a strong club. We took on so many holes because of injuries. With those gaps we got to a certain performance level . . . |
We were satisfied by what we found out. Numerous times, he was, well, very assertive. |
We weren't the same offensive team in September/October that we were the first five months of the season. It's important to figure out why. Is it fatigue? Is it age? Is it 30 games in 30 days [from Aug. 23 to Sept. 21]? |
We'll keep our fingers crossed. Planes, trains and automobiles. |