The situation we’re in, we’ve been having trouble scoring runs. It’s expected as a fundamental ball club that you have to manufacture runs. That’s part of his game, part of his role.

He’s really made great strides in his maturity level and game knowledge. All the philosophies we’ve been talking about – you know, strike zone awareness, seeing more pitches, things like that – it’s always up...

There’s nothing holding him back. There’s not any one area where he’s bad. He’s multi-talented and a great athlete. It’s just games and experience – that’s just going to make his overall game better.

I sat down with him and the staff and told him how impressed I’ve been with his maturity and focus and preparation.

More impressive is he did it a lot with two strikes. He can fall behind in the count and showed a lot of patience, worked a lot of counts from two strikes to a walk....

It was impressive to see him not panic and make those pitches.