Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ryan Dempster

He gave the bullpen a real nice breather.

He does it every year. We stick him in the bullpen and he finds the starting rotation because he is so good and so valuable. I'd like to have two of him -- one in the bullpen and one starting.

He looked good in the bullpen before the game. He just could not find the plate.

We talked a lot about mechanics. Being tall, when something mechanical can go wrong, it goes wrong in a hurry. We talked about what he watches out for and the things he does in his bullpen sessions. It was good stuff.

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.

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.

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

Chris Carpenter

Shows consistency. But that's what my goal is: trying to be consistent as often as I can. I've said this (before): If you go out and be consistent and give this team a chance to win with the defense, offense and bullpen we have, we're going to win a lot of games.

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.

Steven Wright

The past week our bullpen threw a lot, especially with the doubleheaders in the (Rainbow) tournament, and we have five games this weekend, so I figure if I can finish the game off, I can give 'em a little rest so they can go out and get the next four games.

Bronson Arroyo

We got on a streak just like this last year, and you really feed off each other. You're thinking about getting deep into the game to save the bullpen for October, and it's fun.

Felix Hernandez

In '05, '06, '07 and '08, I wasn't throwing any changeups at all. Maybe two or three per game. In '09, I started playing with the grip, started throwing it in the bullpen and playing catch. It came out really good.

Joe Torre

I think we have to change. We have to improve our bullpen somewhat and find someone to play center field.

Phil Garner

I thought Roy started tiring in the sixth, ... but he did the job he had to do. And the bullpen was perfect. Roy has had a couple of rough outings lately, but he was back in the groove tonight.

Cole Hamels

Yeah, every bullpen they want to know how I'm doing, so that's funny. Once I'm on the mound I don't notice it, but it is funny. It's nice, and flattering.

We are glad to have Braden back in our system, and he's glad to be back. He will be a quality setup pitcher in our bullpen and be able to close for us on days when Jason is not available.

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

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 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 like our bullpen. We can look, with those pitch counts, at reducing games to our bullpen a little quicker, potentially.

Jon Daniels

We like everything we've seen about him. He has great makeup and he fits in with a veteran group in the bullpen who have taken him under their wing.

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 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.

Buddy Bell

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

Buck Showalter

We were sitting there getting ready to be in our bullpen early.

My bullpen and the first inning, everything was down and had life on it. Something happened in the second inning where I was rushing the plate and everything was up in the zone, away. I was having a hard time locating. I was pretty fortunate to get out of there with only two runs.

Brad Thompson

We came into the game knowing that the bullpen was going to have do some work, so it was good to be able to do it. Cal did a great job starting. I figured that he would go three or four innings, so I was ready and when the phone rang I figured it was me.

Joe Torre

We have to improve our bullpen somewhat and find someone to play center field. Teams have to change all the time to try to stay up with things and try to improve.

Ozzie Guillen

We're winning because our starting pitching has been great and our bullpen has done a good job. To win the series was really important to us.

Brian O'Connor

Those guys in the bullpen have been worked hard. I was trying to sneak through one more inning with Jacob.

Bruce Bochy

We had to make sure the bullpen was in order. We've got some guys in the bullpen who need a break. So we'll wait a day, and Cameron will be in center field (today).