He gave up four solo homers and he didn’t let it bother him. We had a very good second inning with timely hitting. And we took advantage of a mistake.

It has been tremendous. The work ethic that has been put forth has been just great. The environment was very loose, which is what I like to see, and yet within the framework of that...

Paul did a fine job. He displayed the characteristics necessary to become a consistent starter at this level. I wouldn’t be surprised if you saw more of that in 2006.

I don’t really think he’ll get better from the sidelines. But I think we’re getting to the point where you’d certainly like to think we’ll sit here and see some improvement.

Sometimes it takes one at-bat in one game for the light to go on. You can accomplish a lot by doing what we were doing with Duffy today.

If you want to swing off of live pitching, go right ahead. But recognize the fact of what a strike is and what a ball is. Let’s get a good swing at a good pitch.

I like what he’s done, … The guy can hit, there’s no question about it.

As a two-hole hitter, this guy has the capability for doing great things for us offensively.

He gives you the impression that he learned how to pitch, not just throw the ball, but do what he wanted to do with it, at about the age of 10. He has a real...

Webb made great pitches. He was throwing curveballs and changeups for strikes.

We’re talking about a catcher. Squatting, up and down out of the crouch, runners going, boom, the impact of landing. … It doesn’t make any sense to push it.

We’ve got to find opportunities for them. I don’t want to see either of them sit for any period of time and not participate. We can’t let these guys sit for days on end and...

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...

He’s shown me some things in batting practice and some of the other skill work that we’ve done that this kid has a chance to be a player. He handles the bat very well. There’s...

You have to give Victor Santos a lot of credit. Since we’ve seen him at the start of spring training, it’s by far the best he’s pitched in this uniform. He did a terrific job,...

We need that one extra at-bat — that one extra real good at-bat. We have not been able to get that.

He has a lot of different things to work out. There are two players [Kent being the other] coming together that has to take place. They have to get on the same page, period.

This one is easy to let go of with the type of season it’s been,

The pitch was up and in. In that case, you just try to make sure the pitch hits more helmet than face.

There’s no [Minor League rehabilitation assignment] for him to build up his pitch count to get him to start a game, … We can’t get him up to 75 or 80 pitches.

He did not catch the ball.

To look around here and see the number of guys wearing a glove on their right hand I’ve never seen this, honest to goodness.

As long as he keeps his focus and continues to realize there is no real opportunity to be satisfied and he maintains that hunger, … he could wind up being a real good pitcher in...

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.

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.