Is that a problem? Yeah. Is that a good problem? Yeah.

He’ll fit in quite nicely. You can’t win without talent and we couldn’t pass up the ability to pick up someone with talent and experience, too.

It’s ridiculous to say that we don’t enjoy it. It’s a great start for us. With young clubs, you get off to a good start and you can carry this roll deep into the season....

(Fielder) has been in a major league clubhouse his whole life. He’s not awed or wide-eyed by this. He knew he was destined.

But those things all turn around. Our pitching will get back on track and we’ll be in good shape.

Experience tells you he’s not going to do it every time, but he’s sure going to do it the high majority of the time. That’s all you ask for.

He had no problems whatsoever.

You have to have that type of balance. You got a 25-man team and every man has to go out there and do his job. That’s what happened in that (seventh) inning. Now, we’ve got...

I don’t think we’re as fundamentally sound as they are yet, offensively or defensively.

It’s a matter of commanding his fastball and being consistent. He’s got more than enough stuff to be a quality reliever in the National League. It sets everything else up when he’s throwing his fastball....

I want them to get used to playing all three outfield spots. Versatility is certainly the key to what we want to do.

We just let too many opportunities get by early. We got his pitch count up and three times we had runners in scoring position and fewer than two out. We just couldn’t put the ball...

We’re getting a look at these guys for next year.

His elbow is sore. We’re not going to bring a guy up who’s hurt.

For the first time, they actually can come into camp and live the dream of playing into October. There are a lot of things that have to go right, but for the first time we...

You just kind of felt that. I turned around and said, ‘Prince is going to win it for us right here.’ He’s too good a player, too good a hitter, to have it go an...

He knows what he’s doing and knows what he wants. He grew up in this game and knows the game extremely well. I think he still has to work on his defense, but he will...

We don’t really see him having to go on a Minor League rehab [assignment]. There is a chance Wise and Santana could go out, for an inning or two.

We need two in a row to get us over the hump.

They’ve definitely improved their bullpen. It looks real solid.

Corey came in, got off the plane, got dressed, took batting practice and smoked the ball two or three times. He finally got a hold of one.

That’s going to be the hardest thing I’m going to have to do this season is finding Billy Hall playing time.

It was good to get some runs early. It gave Cappy a little room to breathe out there. He pitched another good game.

I’m real superstitious. Somehow, I don’t believe it’s the uniform.

When Billy gets hot, he can do some damage. He never hits those high, long ones. He hits laser shots.

They can ask all their questions with the doctors in there. We don’t want any confusion. Shut the door and let the players talk among themselves, just them and the docs.

I think that this organization for 12 years had gotten used to losing and you have to break that cycle. That’s why 81-81 was a big step for us. It broke the cycle.

When we traded Richie, the whole complexion of the team changed. We always seemed to be sitting back and trying to hit the home run. Now we’ve got guys in the lineup who work the...

That’s going to help us as much as it hurts us.

His workload has been real heavy. We had an off day (Thursday), but he was coming off two big-pitch innings for him – in the 20s – and even though he’s big and strong, it...

We like Dana. We just want him to get over there and get straightened out and work his way back to the big leagues. We want him to get in a comfort zone.

Even though we’ve been struggling, I think we have a decent lineup. I think we will score some runs. Maybe today is a start for us.

That wasn’t his doing. That was kind of ours.

We didn’t want to get too far away from our goals. We felt we had to have something go right.

The reason I first wanted to start him was I remembered the times we would face him in Atlanta and just think you were going to kill him. And he always stuck it [to us].

He’s not just a closer. He’s a dominant closer.

He hadn’t thrown in four days and I wanted to get him an inning, keep it within one run and see if lightning might strike for us in the bottom of the inning.

He had struck him out the first three times up. I was going to give him an opportunity to face him, and he struck him out again. That was the turning point of the game.

Really, we had three pretty good games. Rick Helling definitely gave us that opportunity for that to happen today. He had seven real strong innings. He has done a real nice job with his opportunities.

It’s a little bit (strange), if you let it be. If you look at it as pitching infrequently, it messes you up. You keep yourself ready.

You’ve got to have fun in this game. Some people believe in it. Some people don’t.

Those kind of games come down to one big hit. Helling and Oswalt both pitched outstanding, and then Lidge came in and did an awesome job. Dana battled to get two outs and then got...

It’s hard to find guys that can play second, third and short,

Everybody was a little off today, command-wise.

Vargas was on his game today. We had some good swings and hit some balls on the nose, but we just hit them straight up.

He grew up in this atmosphere. So the expectations others had for him have never bothered him because they can’t match those that he’s had for himself for a long time.

I’m happy with the way we’re swinging our bats.

It’s just a day game after a night game. Miller would be catching if we were playing a night game.

He’ll play until Brady gets back. He’s been swinging the bat real well. He can do a lot of things to help you win.

It was a … bullet, and at times the ball skips in this outfield. To Conine’s credit, he’s charging that ball to make a play at the plate.