Felipe Alou

He's thrown the ball well in Los Angeles, and we are trying to win games - that's another factor.

You talk about a guy being on the bubble. (But) we want starting pitchers to be able to pitch (in the spring) even if they're going to give up runs.

We want starting pitchers to be able to pitch (in the spring), even if they're going to give up runs. We want to get away from the trap we were in last year with a lot of three- and four-inning starts.

Correia and (Brad) Hennessey were guys who were always up and down, bullpen back to starting. Now we have our hands full with good possibilities for next year. Correia won't have to go back to the bullpen.

Greene threw out the Padres' Dave Roberts on a steal attempt on Sunday and called a good game with Noah Lowry. We know he's a good hitter and calls a good game. He's a very lively guy, and he happens to know this division well -- that's a plus here.

The acquisition of Matt Morris is a good, good one. He's great.

I believe Schmitty has really, really become a complete pitcher. He can pitch when he has real good stuff or what he had (Saturday). ... He still got a couple of punch-outs (six over five innings). That should tell him that he doesn't need to throw his fastball past everybody.

His hand-eye coordination, I have not seen anybody but Ted Williams that was like that.

I played with Hank Aaron. Stuff started to happen hate letters, fans in the stands.

He is the only pitcher I went (behind the cage) to see. I hope he didn't mind that.

I hope he doesn't stop. The only thing is, the guy wants to hit a few home runs.

He gave me the best at-bat that I have seen this year in his first at-bat. The 11-pitch at-bat right out of the hospital.

He gave me the best at-bat that I have seen this year, ... I'm not just talking about our team. I'm talking about any team. Right out of hospital.

I never saw him loafing to first. He used to run hard every ground ball, every fly ball, ... It was amazing the way he played the game. Because sometimes you just don't feel like running hard when you think it's going to be an out. If you see him before the game, you didn't believe he was so tough a player. He used to play hurt every day. Used to complain he didn't sleep. But when the game started, he was just marvelous.

He told me he feels very, very good. Bonds is having fun. Last year he didn't because he was hurt.

We have guarded ourselves against some of the things that hurt us last year.

The only way we will have those two guys play a lot of games is if we have an individual to pick up the slack,

I haven't talked to him. The only information I have has come from the medical people. I don't believe he's doing a whole lot right now. But probably swinging the bat like he always does.

There's no injury. He's 100 percent going to play (Friday night at Colorado). Two days was going to be better than one day.

Barry, besides what he does with the bat, he's a tremendous base-runner. He doesn't have speed, but his sense of reaching a base or taking the extra base is still there. He's a good judge.

He's going to be a late-inning pitcher, a closer-type guy. He's been throwing the ball hard and improving his breaking ball.

Wow, he was good. The leadership there on the hill, the intensity ... we didn't hit much, but there was a lot of life in this game because of him.

The pitch he struck out on was low. Nobody was going to hit that pitch. Some umpires need to learn the strike zone, too.

I thought the guy was out. Saw a strike on the corner that was not ruled a strike.

Even without Barry playing, we thought we were going to have a really good season. The effort was there. I don't have a guy to accuse of not hustling or not working hard all year.