Dave Duncan
Dave Duncan
asked attitude bit builds confidence early establish guys happens hope job
It's big because for these guys to come in and do the job that they're being asked to do early builds confidence in them and for us as well. You hope that it happens enough that it snowballs a little bit and these guys establish the attitude that they need to have.
call close simply valuable
It was not a close call at all, simply because Marquis can be tremendously valuable to us out of the bullpen,
bad choice consistent guys start throwing
All of those guys competed equally. Any of them wouldn't have been a bad choice. From start to finish, Hancock was the most consistent throwing strikes.
belt guys hope hurt next pitches quality seeing step time understand
All the pitches they got hurt on were belt high. I don't like it, but I understand it. Next time out, we hope to be seeing guys take another step forward, making more quality pitches, get them in that mode.
feels
If he feels better he'll go out there tomorrow. We'll go from there.
attention bench guys interested pay
These guys pay attention, ... All of these guys are interested in it so that makes you pay even more attention to it because they'll come to the bench and we'll talk.
guys majority pitchers season step successful
These guys are going to have to step up and be the pitchers they were the majority of the season for us to have a successful postseason,
compare depth last rotation starting
You can't even compare this starting rotation to last year. There's so much more depth this year.
aware games hard hope influences presents situation win
You can't always do what you would like to do, so you just hope the situation presents itself. You're aware of how much they're throwing, how hard (the starters) are working. That influences what you do. But we're still going to play the games and try to win them.