We’re anxious to face Cuba. We’ve never played them before in this type of competition.

They always say the most important pitch in baseball is Strike 1. It’s even more important now.

I don’t think that, with the level of competition of every team, you need to have your ‘A’ team out there for nine innings every day.

We have big stars in our country, and it’s tough to trim our roster. There are lots of expectations around our club. I think we’re going to fulfill them.

I think our pitching was great. Actually things kind of flip-flopped a little bit. I think everybody thought we were going to hit everybody around in this tournament and that our pitching was as good...

I think it really helped [to understand him] that he went to a bigger market team.

We felt relieved. These guys are professional. They’ve been playing in the big leagues for years and they’re used to ups and downs.

Knowing Pedro, he doesn’t want to participate just to participate.

Nobody said it was going to be easy. But you can lose one game in the second round and still advance.

I am worried about the health of our best starters, but they have the desire to play and that makes me happy.

It’s nice to have depth, and that’s what we have.

There’s still a lot of baseball left in Sosa, he’s only had one bad year and has a lot to offer the Dominican team.

We really went at it hard like professionals. They deserve the credit. I’d rather give them credit than make excuses.

Daniel deserves all the credit. We had several scoring opportunities to break the game open. We didn’t do it but our pitching staff came through.

If you’re looking for the best players at this time, you can be sure to find them on the Dominican team.

(The WBC) is going to be every four years, but I don’t know if in four years we’ll be able to put together a team like we have right now. This is a pretty special...

Willie has made it clear that the job is out there for the taking.

Cabrera just stepped up and did a great job.

I believe that part of what the World Classic did was remind people that baseball talent comes from all over the world. There are a lot of people playing this game.

This park brings back good and bad memories. We fell short, but it was good to make it here. Our expectations were very high because of the team we had, but I also understood that...

I’m very happy with the performance of the guys here. And everybody had a chance to play.

It is a sign of what we can do.

They flat out outplayed us.