I expect, once he settles in — it may takes him a couple hitters, it may take him an inning or two — once he gets over that, he should be fine. We’re not going...

Gus battled through it. I think he’d rather pitch in a tight game. He doesn’t like the comfortable lead.

All I know about my guys out there is they get after it. They don’t quit. There’s something to be said for that. In the long run, that’s going to help us out.

It’ll definitely be a pitcher. We’ve got a lot of options.

He’s getting there with his running but he’s not at full speed yet.

I think he may be a little tired. This is his first year doing it and what’s affecting him now is his location. Usually you don’t see it in velocity, you see it in location.

He’s been in a position to win a couple of them. He left with the lead in Anaheim. He’s pitched some good games along the way,

It’s his bottom hand. His hand came off the bat on a swing. He’s swollen.

We’re going to need them. There are going to be days in the year we are going to have to call on them to do the job and hold the fort so we can try...

He’s a big, tall right-hander. He’ll be closing out games one day.

He’s a new guy now, he’s getting better and better, he showed that tonight.

We have to keep them happy. We’ll make it work.

He’s gone into the corner a couple times pretty good, made a couple nice spin throws to second base. I can see his arm has already gotten better. He’s stretching it out a little bit....

You never want to embarrass the kid. But he needed to get his work in.

We think we can win when he pitches, but we’re also developing him for the future. You’ve got to do it sometimes — and what’s the other option? The more he’s out there, the better...

The game doesn’t wait on you.

He had great stuff. He went out there a few times and pitched very good for us. He may have had a tender elbow at times. To be honest with you, it doesn’t surprise me....

He has been taking some good swings. That’s what we got him for. He’s intimidating when he steps in there.

From here on out every game matters to them and it doesn’t matter who they’re playing,

All indications from the MRI are that it’s nothing serious. You’ve got to let it calm down. He had that tendon problem last September, and of course it healed. It just flared up on him....

It was a little bit of a sloppy game.

He came back and threw strong. He wasn’t as sharp as he usually is, but he had almost two weeks off. He’s fine. He’s healthy.

The platoon is still on. He’s just hit [Javier] Vazquez good. That’s all. Nothing more than that. And he’s playing good.

No, I’ve heard of that but no, I wouldn’t want to make a mockery of this,

He worked at it and got groundballs. He looked like typical Doc out there.

I don’t think it is anything serious.

He’s got to get to know everybody. We tell guys to catch the guys they don’t know, but especially him.

He’s been steady for us the last couple of years,

Towers has come into his own. He competes as well as anybody out there. He throws strikes. He’s a winner. He’s always been an underdog, but he’s earned it to be one of the five...

Last year, we played well against both those teams, and that gave us confidence. Now, I think we closed the gap a little bit more.

Ted (Lilly) has a bad back right now, something he felt the day after his last start (March 26). So we’ll give him an extra day of rest and have Josh (Towers) start the second...

[Wells] is a very good breaking-ball hitter. He worked at it. He’s had some slow starts to seasons, and hopefully he keeps riding this.

Our guys have been very confident swinging the bat. From top to bottom we’ve been pretty effective, and that’s what you have to have. All the good teams do.

It got away and it got away quick. If those (homers) are base hits or even doubles it might be a different story.

Preliminary exams say the same thing. We’ll let (Dr. Andrews) determine that and then go from there. It’s big. The second time it’s happened to him. You’ve got to move on. We’ve just got to...

We knew what we needed to do to improve. We targeted some guys and we were hoping to get one or two of them. You never expect to get your whole wish list and we...

There was no reason at all to toss me,

If it all clicks for this kid, you’ve got a very good player because he can do everything. He’s a five-tool player and those guys are very rare. So when that does happen, those are...

There were days in spring training when I would approach him after he got a couple of at bats and ask him if he had had enough. If there was someone pitching who we were...

He’s had a heck of a year. We knew we had something special when we saw him last September and with what he did in the Minor Leagues last year. He keeps getting better and...

Guys when they get tired they lose their location. What happens is they got reach back and give a little extra to maintain what they got and your location suffers but you maintain your velocity.

We’ll bounce back (today). It’s the second game of the year.

I just think it’s his timing. He’s off-balance a little bit more — and he’s getting caught out front a little bit more. But he’s always hit. He’s going to hit. It’s just one of...

Anytime he goes out there, you know you can count on him. You look at the last couple years here, and he’s always won for us. But he’s always been the odd man out, too....

You don’t worry about that stuff, man. I’m still on the losing end. Someday, I can say I at least got to 100.

He’s out there and he’s healthy. They found some holes, but I thought he pitched OK. He was around the plate.

They won two of three [against the Yankees] the other day, … If you look at what they’re doing, they’re one of the top teams since the All-Star break. They can hit and they can...

We left some guys on. We had some chances to get to Leiter, but we just didn’t cash in there. It happens.

What a difference an offense makes. From day one we’ve been swinging the bats, and that was big. If we don’t have the offense we have, we don’t come back.

That gave us some breathing room.