He's really made great strides in his maturity level and game knowledge. All the philosophies we've been talking about - you know, strike zone awareness, seeing more pitches, things like that - it's always up to the player to take it in and apply it to their game. He's done that, and it's a big credit to him. He's really caught on quick. |
I sat down with him and the staff and told him how impressed I've been with his maturity and focus and preparation. |
It was impressive to see him not panic and make those pitches. |
More impressive is he did it a lot with two strikes. He can fall behind in the count and showed a lot of patience, worked a lot of counts from two strikes to a walk. He's been very impressive. |
The situation we're in, we've been having trouble scoring runs. It's expected as a fundamental ball club that you have to manufacture runs. That's part of his game, part of his role. |
There's nothing holding him back. There's not any one area where he's bad. He's multi-talented and a great athlete. It's just games and experience - that's just going to make his overall game better. |