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I've always liked him, because he's always had great stuff and a great arm. His problem has always been health. When he's healthy, he's a quality Major League pitcher, without question. And if he can stay healthy ... that's always been an issue.

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It was a weak ground ball that got a run home. It was a free RBI. He battled his tail off and got the run in. It wasn't pretty, but that's the difference between 100 RBIs and 85. It doesn't look like a line drive in the paper, but it looked real important to me. That's the kind of stuff you're looking for.

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I really like him -- he's very smart. We've got ourselves a hell of a big league pitcher.

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I think it's just a respect factor. I think he's earned that over his career. And I loved his response. He's flattered. He said 'Thank you. It's an honor. I'll be ready go.' It was totally professional.

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I think for a young hitter, he uses the whole field as well as any young hitter. I think that's probably the biggest thing, to be honest with you.

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If you get up (north) in the cold weather and every day in the third or fourth inning he can't continue, you have to think of some other options.

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Hell of a job. I'm proud of them.

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Hopefully he's in a little better situation (than Pittsburgh). That's not a criticism. I just hope he gets a little more opportunity to be successful.

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Your heart is blowing out of your shirt.

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When we were in Pittsburgh, we had a decent pitching staff. But it became a damn good pitching staff because we had five Gold Glovers.

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We stunk. The whole ball of wax was lackluster. It's been going on here before and it's not going to happen. . . . They were ready to get on the plane and go to Oakland. If we won, it was OK. If we lost, it was OK. And that's not good enough.

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He's worked at it. It shows. Guys don't understand how important that stuff is.

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If I was an infielder and I was having a little trouble, I'd at least say hello to the guy. If you're a major league outfielder and you've got Al Kaline and Andy Van Slyke standing there, I'd have to think you might have a question for them at some point.

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This is good. I don't have any problem with this stuff. This kid gets to start in a Major League game. You look at the bright side. And I think our guys will be OK.

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It just breaks my heart.

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We obviously played the wind better than they did. We hit too many lazy fly balls, and today, they just happened to be home runs.

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I don't like to make rash decisions when you have something bad like that happen. You're better off to just take your time, don't panic, think it out and then make a decision.

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Everybody's got 10 people penciled in here, 10 people penciled in there. Wow, we've played three games and I don't know what the hell we're doing yet, to be honest with you. But I'll tell you one thing We're not going to give jobs away.

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We have three or four good prospects. That's what I can tell you. Either it's going to be nice for me or for somebody else, however it works out.

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There are a lot of things we're trying to establish. The biggest hill to climb is the confidence factor.

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I think this guy's got a very bright future. You don't see stuff like that.

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To be honest with you, there's not a guy in this clubhouse that knows for sure if they're ready.

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I'm not criticizing anybody, I'm not picking on anybody. You've got to give teams 27 outs. If you give teams 31 or 32, particularly a team that has the horses like the Yankees, you're going to get beat.

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We're not deep enough to be able to handle all these injuries.

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The need to get away from it. They're playing too many innings. We've got a gruesome stretch here the next few days. I thought long and hard about it when I went back to the park last night ... I just made a decision that this might make sense.

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