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Just relax. All I tell him is to go out there and do the best he can. He's doing all right. It'll be trial-and-error for a while, maybe all year. Who knows

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This is kind of what I would say is an amazing streak, but the club doesn't amaze me because they showed early on that they have the desire, the heart and we hung in there in close ball games, but this has been kind of an unbelievable roll that we're on right now and who knows when it's going to end.

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He's getting better, continuing to improve. He's still not quite there yet. Location is still a little off. But I'm pleased with where he is.

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You just don't like to see sloppy play. We're not playing good, crisp, sharp baseball in any aspect of the game right now. Period. It's going to have to pick up. It's focus, anticipation and concentration. That's what it is. We don't seem to really be there right now.

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What you have to do is just understand these kids today and not think about the past. You have to make adjustments to bridge that gap.

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Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

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I don't know if it hurt his development, but it certainly didn't help.

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My idea was, let's not push this. We waited these few days. Lets wait another day and see how he feels on Wednesday.

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If you want to be realistic, you say, 'What would it take A miracle.' Well, miracles happen. Not too often, but they do happen once in a while. But, realistically, yeah, we're looking at it, and probably it's insurmountable.

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Zimmerman makes a knack of making that diving play. He just has tremendous reflexes.

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If they can get through their normal-type games, going deep into the game, we'll be able to handle the weekend with the people we have right here.

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It would have been really fairy tale if we could have pulled this thing off. They wouldn't have even touched this in Hollywood.

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I don't know if staying in the Major Leagues hurt his development, but it certainly didn't help his development. He would have benefited much more if he played a full year in the Minor League level.

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To me, anybody who plays this game who's not injured can give you 100 percent. Now, maybe your 100 percent may be different than my 100 percent. But you can run hard, run the best you possibly can . . .

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That's tough to say because it just doesn't seem real. For them to accomplish that, you have to give them a lot of credit.

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I'd like to see them play sharper, more alert, and for the defense to play good, clean baseball.

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I don't have no expletive regrets, ... I'm not going to sit there and watch him go ball one, ball two, ball three, ball four. I don't give a hoot if it was two outs. He was one hit away from disaster.

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It would be water under the bridge as far as I'm concerned.

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I didn't think he was going after the hitters. He was walking himself into trouble. He was one base hit away from the game blowing in our faces. I don't like pitchers throwing balls. You can't defense ball four.

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They're getting around it, ... They know who they want and they bring in a minority or two and interview them. They're circumventing the policy. The commissioner's office has to look at this and tighten the guidelines. They have to get more involved in the interview process, maybe have a representative from the commissioner's office at the interviews.

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He's a very unique individual. Not everybody can do what he does. It comes from his background, his work ethic. He loves the work load. He wants to throw as many innings as possible. He loves doing it.

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I'm not going to walk him to lead off an inning. I don't walk anybody leading off an inning. I don't think there is anybody in the game I would ever walk leading off an inning, or walk him with the bases loaded to save three runs.

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From the word I got from the athletic trainers this morning ... he wouldn't be of use to me until we get home.

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I'd certainly prefer to finish fourth than finish fifth. There's a stigma to that last. 'You finished last, last year.' And after the start we had, ... that just kind of throws cold water completely on the whole season right there.

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It's a big adjustment for him. You can have the talent, but if you don't want to work at it, you won't get any better. I have patience in him. I hope he has patience in himself.

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