He couldn’t feel the ball with his thumb. That really affected his location.

It’s hard to throw much better than that, … He made it look easy. He had great command, good sinking action and was getting ground balls. He made adjustments, and it looks like he took...

This kid’s makeup is off the charts, … We’re excited to have Jake all ready to go.

We needed a big hit, we have been missing it. He came through big time. It sure makes life easier when you get a big hit.

We don’t want to lose him, … We didn’t want to designate anyone at this point. Our choice is that Paul would decide to stay and no one else will claim him.

There is no question Doug was a time bomb. More than anything, I’m glad we found this before anything serious happened on the field.

What a great job he’s done. He’s been a nice surprise for us. When you make changes like we have in the bullpen, you need somebody to come through for you, and he has.

We’re going to approach him the way we always have and just take for granted that he’s going to be swinging the way he usually swings. I mean this guy’s one of the greatest hitters...

We’re hoping tomorrow that when (Cameron) gets up, he’ll feel fine. There is considerable concern.

It’s hard to play any better than we did.

He’s fine. He’s going to get a little time here and get healed up everywhere. I just want to give him a break right now.

It’s whoever’s playing the best ball at the time, who’s clicking, pitching the best, playing the best ball. That’s why you have Wild Card teams get hot at the end and keep going.

When you’re not swinging well, you lose that [swagger],

When he’s good, he’s pounding the strike zone and picking.

He looks the same. I don’t see any difference in his bat speed. He got a hanging breaking ball and took advantage of it.

A lot depends on how he responds to the medication.

He looks like he’s going to miss a couple days. He’s the one guy we can’t lose on this ballclub. That would be a tremendous blow if we had him go down.

I hope their enthusiasm takes over.

When you haven’t had a lot of success up here, it comes down to confidence. He didn’t have the same look he did this spring. It just looks like he loses his focus out there,...

We could be using both of them.

Gutsy performance by Jake. We just couldn’t add on here or there to help out.

I’ve never seen anything quite like this. It is hard to figure out what is going on. It has us buffaloed.

It was good to see him. We made reference to that, the possibility that he wouldn’t be here [and could have landed in Cleveland]. He’s going through his routine. Some things don’t change.

I wouldn’t even want to think about where we’d be without him. And I don’t want to ever think about what it’d be like in the future without him.

We can do the same thing. We’re just not doing it.

We have to get on track with our pitching, and we think we will.

He’s been hitting for close to a week now and catching bullpens, and he’s been cleared to go by our physicians. So he’s in there. He says he’s ready to go.

Breslow did a great job. He saved us. Once Oxspring couldn’t go, we had to stick with him.

He came to camp in great condition. When Chan Ho left for the Classic, he looked like he was ready for the season.

They’re going to need a break, though. Tomorrow we’re going to do it by committee. They’ve been throwing a lot here in the last three days.

Anytime you get one of your core players back, it’s a spark to your team.

He’s done a great job. I think he’s been our surprise for the year. I like the way he’s aggressive with all his pitches.

If we think it’s in his best interest to skip a start, then we’ll do it,

It’s very close between the two. I wish I had a better reason besides what I just told you. I think Sweeney is our best guy coming off the bench.

I don’t have any real comment on that.

It’s a credit to him that he didn’t try to overthrow and did a great job of staying within himself. I think he understood that it was important that he be careful, and he was....

It’s good to see him out there. He’s worked hard to get to this point.

The stuff was always there. I think the change of scenery was good for him. Chan Ho is going to have a nice year. I’m very encouraged by how he’s thrown the ball.

He’s got unbelievable power. It’s plus-plus power.

It would be hard to put together a better game than we did.

Greeney, it doesn’t get any bigger than that. You’re just hoping to put one in play and get a base hit there to tie it. That’s quite a piece of hitting.

I just wanted to address a couple of things today, and that’s what we did,