I don't think it's a coin flip, |
I look at Cincinnati as being very similar to the Cardinals 10 or 11 years ago when that group bought the team. The team needed some new direction and new leadership. It wouldn't take too long to turn around. |
I never had much concern about this club. I could tell the last week guys were dragging, waiting to get out of (Florida). I thought it showed. But when the season started, I was pretty sure we would turn it on again. |
I really didn't see much difference between the two (bullpens), ... Flores has been very good, and I don't think anyone envisioned Thompson helping this quickly, but he has. |
I really didn't see much difference between the two (bullpens). Flores has been very good, and I don't think anyone envisioned Thompson helping this quickly, but he has. |
I think he's shown the ability that he could be a very good major-league outfielder at some point. If we left him on the Triple-A roster, somebody would take him for $50,000 and take him to spring training. He could very easily make one of those clubs. . . . . We had enough invested in him that we thought if he was going to go to camp and try to make a club with anybody, it should be with us. |
I think Sidney is a perfect example of the type of pitcher that we feel Dave Duncan can help get better and bring him to the next level. |
I think the idea is to go to spring training and have a competition and see. What it does provide is some insurance if we feel Anthony is not ready. |
I think the one club that has a chance to sneak in and do well is Milwaukee. |
I think there will be some changes, |
I think they're looking at [ Miguel ] Tejeda as a comp. |
I think we need to sit back and reflect on this year and see where we want to go. But Reggie's a free agent ... So outfield would obviously be an area we'll have to address. We've got a couple free agent pitchers, so we have to look at that, too. |
I think we still don't know for sure where he's at physically. We know he's not ready to come back yet. [We don't know] whether he will be before the end of the season. But we're getting to a point where he's going to have to start playing to get ready to play for the rest of the year. I don't know. It's really hard to determine at this point. |
I think we're all looking for the stud guy, the big specimen. |
I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy. |