He gives our lineup a different feel. At the plate, maybe he’s not what he was a few years ago. But he’s still one of the top offensive forces in the game. Pitchers don’t like...

We’re expecting him to keep building and growing from what he did last year.

Rick is a versatile veteran that keeps the ball on the ground. He’s always ready to go, he knows how to prepare and be ready to pitch virtually every day.

To go through a hearing process at this time, we wanted to avoid that at all costs, and we were successful in the end so we’re thankful for that. It’s a nice raise for him.

He may force our hand to make the club and could help this team.

We worked hard the last couple years to try and help him recover from a gruesome ankle injury, develop consistency and mature on the field and off the field, and he’s made tremendous progress. We’re...

So I wouldn’t be surprised if in the next week, we try to do something. Whether it’s possible or not, I don’t know.

We’ve spent a lot of time on both of them, and we will redouble our efforts on the Adam Dunn front to reach a conclusion one way or another. We’ve had detailed discussions and they’ve...

I can tell you I have called 29 other teams, and all of our special assistants are flying in tonight to start two days of meetings. . . . We?re going to take a fresh...

Wayne said he wanted to bring his own people in. I respect that. He could have moved me down the hall and made my life miserable.

He’s got work to do to get back any skills he may have had. Just because he played there in high school before he was signed doesn’t mean he’s Gold Glove caliber. This will be...

It’s always surprising. You work so hard for an organization. People say nice things about you, and then this happens.

We have no active talks going on involving Austin Kearns, and we have no plans to trade him.

It’s a very subjective game, and you’ve got to have people around you that you know and can trust and count on. I respect that part of the game and understand it, but it doesn’t...

He fits in with the other guys we have down there. He’s a good guy that’s been around and knows how to prepare and pitch.

We feel that Kearns is going to be part of the solution here. We want him to be in right field. He’s a potential Gold Glove winner, and his bat can help this team win.

We haven’t had anything to proceed on yet.

It’s not a very active time right now. A few teams are making deals, as people can see, but a lot of teams aren’t really in that mode.

We’ve been having talks with his agent off and on all winter. I wanted to try and put some closure on it.

We’re glad to have it behind us. I hate going through the hearings. We’re glad we got it done with Felipe.

We’re very high on Eddie. Hopefully, he’ll come to Spring Training and grab that job. It’s his to take.

They’ve been intensive. They will get more intensive until we get something done. I’m hopeful. We’re focusing all of our energies to do that now. We’ll reach closure one way or another.