That second run was the result of 100-percent effort that he’s given each time he’s on the field. It’s a very noteworthy play and the difference in the game. You can’t teach that, but winners...

Right now, … it’s safe to say that the seventh pitcher [in addition to five starters] is much more valuable to us than a sixth position player on the bench.

He’s on a mission to pitch himself into the starting rotation and right now he’s succeeding.

One of the things that young players have to not only learn but gain an admiration for is the respect factor of the game and the people who have participated in previous years, and an...

Ian threw the ball extremely well.

Very well deserved. What else would you ask Craig Wilson to do?

Each time we creep back into the game, it’s followed up by additional runs from the other side of the field. When you’re trying to get back into a game three or four times a...

You’ve got to be able to pitch and you’ve got to be able to catch the ball. If you can’t, you probably won’t be very good.

You better believe he’s having a terrific spring. He has a chance to be a real player at the major-league level.

As the players get older, the problems become a little bit larger that you have to periodically deal with.

I don’t expect perfection. Just keep us in the game, keep us around. You can’t use the bullpen at that rampant of a pace.

We still have some games to play in 2005. The landscape could obviously change one day to the next over the course of the winter. I really don’t feel like sitting here and expounding on...

There were periods like that a couple years ago where people might have thought the same thing, and he bounces back,

Wilson has got a lot on his mind, and he’s trying to sort through a lot of difficult things. He’s got to mentally take some time and sort some things out.

Stranger things have happened in this game. But obviously we have to win a number of our remaining games and obviously we need some help. San Diego has to lose some games in a row...

I firmly believe that we’re going to catch the ball and we’re going to make some special plays periodically.

I can sit here and know wholeheartedly that I’ve given it everything I could possibly give. I’ve put my heart and soul into this.

It’s great to have starting pitching. We have the other things, and you saw that again, but we need good starts. Tonight, we got a great one.

We would like to break ground this fall, but of course we need to get this zone extended to Brown County first. We’ve got to get approval from Brown County, Mount Sterling, Quincy, Adams County...

We’re obviously still very much alive. We’re fractured, yet we continue to play competitive baseball.

His (left) elbow is lower than it should be and he’s not pitching like he’s coming off a slope. At times, his arm was where it was supposed to be … but his inconsistency with...

In the top half of the [eighth] inning, we got first and second [and] nobody out. We got two perfect pitches to bunt — they’re fouled off. And we left our guys stranded out there....

A base hit there changes the complexion of the game.

We’re looking for 35 or 38 or 39, and this is an opportunity to find out who are those guys beyond the 25.

Everyone has their own philosophy,

We had opportunities for this game to be different than it was. We let it get away from us and that happened in the top of the first inning.

It’s important for Duffy to find a way to reach first base without getting a hit every time he’s up.

The best way to approach a player with his type of ability and talent is to feel like you’ve developed a type of environment to allow his development to continue on its natural course. With...

He’s doing everything you could ask, with the type of approach we want him to take as a top-of-the-order guy.

Obviously, we’re being tested early. You know, we were in a position to win all three games. We didn’t get any of them, but the effort is there. It’s part of the challenge of the...

There are a lot of very special people who are still there. You build relationships with people in this game, and some you build lifelong relationships with. There are a few over there I have...

Obviously, he helped make us a good baseball team two years ago.

Those three left-handers — their mission on any given day, when they’re going really, really good, will not be to strike out 12 or 13 guys. That’s not the kind of pitchers they are.

I don’t care what the numbers suggest. I thought the life to his fastball was as good as we’ve seen all spring. I think there could have been a couple different choices he made in...

Offensively, we did some great things. To get back in the game in the manner in which we did took some great at-bats.

He got out of his game. He got out of what helped to get him off to a great start. I saw a much longer swing in Houston. I saw a very short wall in...

It just makes sense, … The way he runs and his ability to steal a base; if he gets on base it sets the stage for a Robles at-bat.

That’s not something you ever assume will be the case. But at the same time, when someone like (Izturis) starts telling you something’s wrong, you pay attention to it.

Victor Santos pitched a terrific game. He pitched inside very effectively and it made his other pitches that much better.

He’s a young guy who’s continuing to work his way through the growth period,

After experiencing as a manager what we went through a year ago, seeing some of those champagne parties that have taken place over the last couple of days has been pretty painful – to the...

We’re going to speed him up a little bit. You’re going to see a guy who dials himself in.

It looked like the Zach Duke we saw a lot of around the National League last year. That’s a very good sign, especially when you start to get short on time in preparing for the...

I think it’s very safe to say that Ryan is not a finished product defensively. I also feel that, when you look at a major-league baseball team that has 25 active members and half of...

One-and-7 obviously isn’t the way you want to start. But the (Dodgers) team I managed last year started 12-2 and we won 71 games. So it’s not a large enough sample size of games. It...

I’m not sitting here suggesting that guys don’t get hits on an 0-2 or a 1-2 pitch … but ordinarily, on 0-2, you don’t see balls get hammered. When you come up through a minor-league...

I don’t find myself coming to grips with doing things like that at this early stage until we see him swing the bat and see what he looks like.

He had a little extra jump in his delivery. This was precautionary.

I know the state law already says that, but I just want to clarify it. We want to study it and make sure that the law is strong enough to keep that from happening.

For a kid his age, he’s off the charts. He’s going to be a good — make that really good — Major League baseball player some day.