[Josh Fogg, the Pirates’ player representative, agrees with the union’s decision to accept a stiffer penalty for first-time steroid offenders. The union is pushing for a 20-game punishment, up from the current 10-day penalty. Commissioner...

That’s a start, but in order to get where I need to be, I need to be a little better with the off-speed pitches. That’s something that you’ve got to take away from this, realize...

It would have been nice to make better pitches with guys on base.

[Wells’] health is a major concern. I think he’s had this problem the last couple of years. He’s had issues with his arm and his hand, not getting enough blood to his hand. It was...

I missed some pitches up in the zone the first two innings, and I paid for them.

It’s a results-oriented game and, overall, I haven’t gotten the results. It’s the story of my year – I had a bad inning.

We got that big sixth inning, and that was huge to go out there and instead of being down 4-2, being up 6-4.

There’s a lot of swelling and bruising, … but there’s not really a lot of pain. I assume I’ll be ready to pitch [Tuesday].

Yeah, I remember that. I was not going about the business the way I was supposed to.

I was a little wild, but I was wild in the zone, … And I managed to pitch out of a couple of jams.

I didn’t get the ball down at all today. Eleven hits in six innings proves the point that I wasn’t pitching down in the zone. … When Furcal got the home run in the fifth,...

I feel like it’s pretty much written in stone now. I don’t know what they’re thinking, but from the signs I’m getting, I don’t feel like I’m in the plans for the future. It’s unfortunate,...

I was trying to get them to put the ball in play but not get the real good part of the bat on it, but they found some holes,