He’s a very good guy, he’s a great teammate. He’s good in the bullpen with the younger guys and he’s free with his advice and he speaks his mind and sometimes it isn’t always a...

It’s hard enough for Zach to be finding himself. To get himself into counts like that is not going to make his job any easier.

He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, ‘You get behind in the count, throw it anyway.’ He started throwing the breaking ball with the fastball.

I talked to them (Sunday) and I talked to them (Saturday) and stressed to them that every inning is important. We are not able to coast.

Throwing on the side doesn’t equate to spring training. There’s just not the same intensity. There’s nobody with a bat in his hands telling you that you just made a mistake.

He’s still very weak. I really don’t know when I can get him off a mound, let alone in a game. So the clock is ticking, and it’s not going to stop. It’s going on...

We haven’t seen any signs of Sunny having the form that he had last year. We talked [on Saturday]. To me, it’s not a mechanics issue. I think he’s kind of lost in what he’s...

He’s attacking the strike zone.

Aaron isn’t afraid of confrontations. He has come so far in the last couple years. Before, he seemed to be pitching away from contact, trying to miss bats. That guy has vanished. Now, he pitches...

He’s going to be a Major League pitcher — we caught lightning in a bottle when we acquired this guy.

This was not so much about his stuff but how well he commanded the strike zone, that he had no discomfort and that he got his pitch count up. The answers were yes, yes and...

The bullpen is something we have talked about since I’ve been here. Last year, we went with younger arms and it showed.

He’s just a model for everybody to emulate, whether it be first-pitch strikes, getting ahead in the count consistently [or] quality of location. And he’s averaging eight to 10 pitches an inning. He makes his...

He throws 10 pitches (during the game), and then he’s in the conditioning room for an hour and he’s just rolling in to the clubhouse when the game is over. He’s put in that much...