Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have to get a quality start out of Tabor. Our bullpen has worked hard and we need to get five or six innings out of him and only give up two or three runs.

Bruce Bochy

We're in pretty good shape, everywhere from the bullpen to the position players. This is how you want to be at this stage.

We're not going to take any chances. He can do a lot of things right now. Gil was able to throw a bullpen at about 70 percent and felt OK. That's a good sign.

Mark Shapiro

Worry and bullpen are always in the same sentence for me. He'll be a welcome sight for us up here at this point.

Larry Parrish

Miner pitched well, and the guys in the bullpen have thrown strikes and gone after guys. They're making some pitches when they have to. I'm really feeling good right now about the way the bullpen has pitched in these first two games.

The price was very high, ... But to get a prime bullpen arm, you have to give up something.

Last year was a pretty good bullpen. (Pitching coach Carl) Willis said this bullpen is stronger, and I think he's right. We proved today that we have a good bullpen.

John Schuerholz

We felt it was important to strengthen our bullpen with some talented, more established arms. And we were able do that with Cruz and Reitsma.

Willie Randolph

We're going to keep him in the bullpen. I like the way the bullpen looks right now.

Usually bullpen guys are cut from the same mould. They're laid back, they don't take things too freaking personal, so it's a good group. I knew it was a good group coming in and it was a group I wanted to be a part of.

Ian pitched his heart out tonight and really deserved for something good to come out of this start. Unfortunately, our bullpen could not shut Evansville down and we lost another game late due to a big inning.

But the bullpen did a great job and my teammates helped me out.

Buddy Bell

Burgos has done pretty good, but this has our bullpen out of synch -- it puts everybody in different roles, whatever those are.

From my understanding, yes, I'm competing for a bullpen spot. It is subject to change at any time.

Billy Wagner

I don't remember how I got from the bullpen to the mound.

I hate to do too much of a diagnosis without talking to everyone. I think there are some pitching needs. There were some positive steps at the end with the bullpen getting settled. But defending your own turf is a big issue. Winning at home and doing better at home are important things.

Sean Marshall

I felt great out there. I felt comfortable warming up in the bullpen and just took it out there on the mound with me.

Cat Osterman

I felt good in the bullpen and even when we came out in the first inning I felt fairly good.

Ozzie Guillen

(If) I put McCarthy there, I have six guys with no experience in the playoffs in the bullpen and now a rookie to close the game. El Duque knows about the playoffs.

John Schuerholz

I feel much better about our bullpen right now.

I don't expect perfection. Just keep us in the game, keep us around. You can't use the bullpen at that rampant of a pace.

Joe Torre

I'd like to see him play in the bullpen so he wouldn't be on the field,

Pat Gillick

I don't know that he's got everything he had back then. I don't think he throws as hard. But our scouting reports still say he's an effective set-up man, and he's going to make our bullpen stronger.

Roy Oswalt

My legs got a little tired when I got around 90 pitches, but I was hoping if I could just keep it 3-2 after the second home run and get through the inning, maybe the bullpen could come in and pick up the last four.

We're trying to survive, ... The whole bullpen is spent. We just don't have any pitching.

Buddy Bell

The good thing about our bullpen is our three guys can all close, with no problem.

Terry Francona

When you get down to your last game, you can have a bullpen full of everybody. You can't do that right now. We need somebody to make these starts. While they're still starting, they need to start. Once we get past each guy's start, you may see various guys going out of that bullpen as soon as they're available. That's a definite.

We'll keep them ready to pitch and look for opportunities to get them experience. I'd rather see them come out of the bullpen than not pitch at all.

David Hale

When our No. 1 and No. 2 pitchers left, I figured I had to step up and pitch and was just thrown into the role. I started doing some bullpen work in the off-season.

We sat down and had a little talk with our bullpen and got everybody in roles. That's been a big help the last three games. Guys didn't know when they were going to pitch. Now everybody in our bullpen knows exactly when I'm going to use them.

We've come out on top of a lot of tight games because of the bullpen that we have.

We came out and had a really good first inning and the bullpen came up big for us in that game like they have all year. This is a good group of guys that want to compete and are excited to get in there and get after it.

We call it the Big Bullpen group. We play a lot of golf together, and they are all good players.