He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I’d vote for him.

He’s our guy. I’m not worried about [his struggles] at all. If you look at it, he’s had some tough luck. He’s hit some balls on the money right at guys. We think he’s going...

If the Yanks don’t win the division, they’ll win the wild card. New York knows how to win when it has to, plus Joe Torre holds things together.

We’re moving in the right direction. We filled some needs and now we need to go out there and see how good we are.

He’s got a valid argument for winning that thing. Very few rookies throw 200 innings. If you really dig deep and look at the kind of year he’s had, he deserves some pretty good consideration.

There a lot of unknowns on this team.

I didn’t see whether that run scored or not, I understand it was close. Somebody said he should’ve been out. From [the umpire’s] angle it’s real tough, because he’s sitting back there and the guy...

You’ve got to score a bunch and you’ve got to pitch lights out. And Josh did that.

We’ll work that out. We’ve got a good bullpen. We’ve got a couple guys searching right now, but we’ll need them and they’ll be fine.

We’ve had to offer guys a little more money, because we couldn’t dangle that postseason carrot. We’re banking on them [Ryan and Burnett], and they’re banking on us.

I don’t see the point in running him out there at this point in the year. It doesn’t make sense.

We were already down two there. If we were tied, we might have done something differently.

Maybe by the end of the week he’ll be ready to go.

If we need another guy, it will be Downs. He would be the guy we’d go to. We’ve got to see where A.J. is in a few days.

If you want them to fight for you, you have to fight for them.

There might come a point where he has to pitch with it, I don’t know. He’ll go see the guy who did the surgery. Hopefully, he’ll get some reassurance from him. Until he sees him...

We played a good ballgame. We scratched a couple runs and caught the big break.

When you’re playing certain teams in the league, you know you’ve got to score. We scored five last night and then five in one inning tonight. You know you have to do that, and the...

He’s getting better. He may do a couple little things here today. I think, by the end of the weekend, [we’ll] get him out there, let him take some ground balls. He’s still a few...

They need to see me around. I like to lock in on those guys sometimes. I like to put a name with a face and see what they can do. They’re trying to impress me...

He finds his groove — finds his rhythm a little bit. Naturally, when a guy’s struggling, he starts pressing. He’s probably coming out of the gates trying a little too hard. Sometimes the harder you...

Roy has missed nine starts so far. You figure he’s good for at least four wins. Where are we with four more wins?

He’s just a threat when he stands in the box. That’s what we brought him over for.

He looked strong. He’s got over powering stuff.

Now we feel we have a chance to do it. But you can talk all you want, until you do it, it doesn’t mean a whole lot.

He’s pretty steady with what he does each year. He drives in his share of runs. He’ll probably hit close to 20 home runs. I’ve heard where he’s going to hit more than that, and...

It was the break we needed, put it that way,

Ideally we would have our whole team here the whole time because we have such a new look and so many new faces. But it’s for the good of the game, so you just deal...

We had a lot of games last year where one or two more runs would’ve made a big difference. We could end up banking a little more on some of the young guys — [Russ]...

The first day we got down here, I said, ‘The numbers are against you, but you still need to approach it like you’re going out there to try and make this team.’ I just want...

He’s struggling out of the gate, he’s a better pitcher than that, he’ll bounce back. His location is a little bit off.

He’s been on the move. He’s got a chance to stay here for a while.

It got too much of the plate.

It’s that same area where he had that problem last year. So he only threw a few pitches and shut it down. After you have an injury, it might just be some scar tissue.

He’s always going to give up hits, he’s aggressive in the strike zone.

He’s riding the bike every day. I’ll tell you that, … He’s in shape. He plays catch or does something every other day to keep his arm working. I’m not even worried about that.

We’re going to make our mistakes this season, but the key will be in trying to limit those. We want to make the routine plays when we have a chance to make them.

He’s a good hitter, and he’s having a tremendous September. He could arguably be the Rookie of the Year, and he should be here for a long time. He’s starting to fit in; he’s very...

Believe it or not, you get some of those veteran pitchers and they can get in some jams and come up with a pitch here or there.

He goes through spurts where he’ll pitch like that, and then he’ll just overthrow and he can’t find the strike zone. Nobody knows why, but when he’s on, he’s awful tough.

It was just one of those nights. They swung the bats and we didn’t pitch as well as we will.

The whole thing with Alex is he’s able to get to that pitch now, where in the past he wasn’t able to. It’s tougher with his size anyway. He’s got long arms. It all has...

I don’t worry about these guys, … They’ve shown up every night all year long. I haven’t seen us tank it yet and I don’t expect to.

There are 10 games left, and he’s not ready to go today, … Or tomorrow. So I can’t answer that yet.

He’s ahead of the game right now.

The last couple of years, he actually pitched pretty good for no spring training, but it caught up with him after a few starts. I only saw one bad pitch [Friday]; he hung a breaking...

He’s putting good swings on the ball. And he’s aggressive.

He had his ‘A’ game going. He can do that to you when he is on.

We had no choice, we had to go to them early. That would have been the perfect night for (Downs). We asked a lot out of our ‘pen, but they sucked it up.

If he drives in 60, that would be fine. He’s got the knack too for some clutch hits because he puts the ball in play and that’s a big thing when you have guys in...