Not all of our starters are 22 years old, but we do have four of them that are 24 or less. We have to allow a little bit of time to allow these guys to...

I saw better life to his fastball, much better life. I can’t sit here and tell you what the velocity was, but that will come as he builds himself up. But the life on his...

That’s just how well that guy pitches. He just dominated the game.

You see building blocks. There’s an immediacy in that we want to win right away, but there’s also a foundation, I think, for this team to be pretty special for a number of years. When...

That’s his game to determine at that point. You take him out of the game like that there, you bring in the bullpen and a mistake is made, a ball gets hit in the gap,...

The kid has the pitches to be very good. This was definitely a game for him to build on.

Two perfect pitches to bunt — they are fouled off and we left our guys stranded. (Chicago) created a two-out situation and got a base hit that scored a run. It’s huge.

You can nitpick all you want, but one run isn’t going to get it done. We played hard. There was no lack of effort. We needed a timely hit. We weren’t able to get it...

We talked an awful lot in Spring Training about unselfishness and the fact that we’re interested, as members of this ball club, to do whatever it is that’s necessary to win a Major League baseball...

I’m extremely pleased with the way Edwin Jackson performed. He has an opportunity to go home on a very positive note.

His stuff is major-league quality. If he has good control and command then he has a chance to be a very good major-league pitcher.

I’ve been very adamant that we’re not looking for 25 players, we’re looking for 37, 38 players. This guy’s versatility is very intriguing. That’s not to say he can’t settle in one spot.

There’s something to that, but I’m not going to talk about it. That doesn’t just happen. And it’s pretty dramatic. There are things I see that intrigue me to want to look even closer.

I’m very in tune with that. When a guy gets on a roll and stays on a roll for a little while, you ride that out.

It’s a tough game to lose after the manner in which we came back. One of the first things to stave off on the road is a leadoff walk in the bottom of the ninth....

We were in an ideal position. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to finish the job.

We were talking about four different people as possibilities for one spot in the rotation. It makes that situation that much more intriguing in my opinion.

When people see you playing the game intelligently — and not just playing the game — they’re going to go tell somebody else, ‘Hey, you should see what I just watched, … And [that] somebody...

My hopes are that Shawn gets things worked out and we can turn it right back to where we want it to be, … I do not want to dramatically change the lineup.

I know the numbers didn’t look too good. However, the thing I was very impressed is that he, for the most part, pitched ahead, threw a lot of strikes and threw some very good breaking...

It’s flexible. It has the potential to be interchangeable.

I say it all the time. I don’t need nine guys. I don’t need 25 guys. I need 35. You have to be deep enough to tap into the minors to be successful.

I have tremendous respect for him. As a strategist, he manages as well as you can, based on my experience against him.

Oliver had a pitch count in the 80s early in the fourth inning. You’re talking about another [early bullpen] day there. How long can that go on? If you have to use your bullpen at...

We will catch the ball.

He’s an excellent baseball player, that’s what he has shown me. He’s very intriguing to me.

It’s not how you start. It’s how you finish. It’s what it looks like after six months of play.

When you’re throwing pitches at 2-0 and 3-1 [counts] to quality Major League hitters, your chances to succeed are minimal. All you can hope for is that when the ball gets hit hard, it gets...

There isn’t a day you would sit here and not want a starting pitcher to go out there and perform the way he did today,

If there’s a save on Tuesday, Brazoban goes out there, … It’s that simple.

What we’re seeing right now is, in my mind, identical to what we saw last year, when it took him a few starts to get untracked, and then you see one quality start after another....

If he comes out of that OK, there’s a good [possibility] we could activate him to participate by next Tuesday.

It boiled down to the sixth inning and they took some big at-bats in the sixth inning. I think the two that were the most noteworthy was the double by (Derrek) Lee down the third...

It’s a great building block to have that up the middle. Those two can be special for a number of years.

It’s a series win in a ballpark where this club hasn’t lost too much. There were just a lot of very positive things tonight.

With the exception of a couple of hitters, he’s ahead of everybody. I can think of two pitches he threw that didn’t go precisely where he wanted them to go. That’s pretty special.

I think to a certain extent it’s mechanical, … He’s rushing some, and as a result of that his pitches are up in the strike zone.

We threw a ton of strikes and we made some very good 0-2 pitches.

I purposely … started him, just to see how he’d respond, … And he hit the ball long and foul, but the point is, you’ve got to protect the runner.

You’ve got to give Victor Santos credit. For me, that’s as well as he pitched since he put on this uniform.

I wouldn’t have been interested in this job if I didn’t feel very strongly that we can make a difference and can move forward,

It’s not just one conversation. We’ve talked an awful lot about what a leadoff hitter is all about, in my opinion, and the role he plays in setting a table.

You know he’s going to continue to get better. He’s someone that can be counted on, not only now but in the future.

I am a firm believer in the fact that a group of guys needs to understand the importance of 90 feet, that it makes the difference in a baseball game. These players will gain a...

Is he a candidate to have an opportunity to make the club? I don’t know the answer to that. We’ll take it a day at a time and see how he progresses from a health...

They both showed me something.

Zach Duke did a good job. He had to battle, obviously.

This is a guy that as we go along you’re going to find him pitching a lot of very meaningful games, games of major significance. That’s who he is. That’s who he’s going to become....

We’re looking to get guys at-bats. We’re going to play our best guys and hope the best in them comes out.

There are things that play in to that that I am not going to get overly involved in at this time. But over the course of the next several days, obviously, we are going to...