Jim Tracy
Jim Tracy
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That was another terrific performance by Derek Lowe . You can't ask any more than what he has given us the past few starts.
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You see building blocks. There's an immediacy in that we want to win right away, but there's also a foundation, I think, for this team to be pretty special for a number of years. When you can build something to the point it's very good, then step back and watch it perform collectively? Trust me, that's a special feeling.
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There isn't a day you would sit here and not want a starting pitcher to go out there and perform the way he did today,
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Just another complete performance by Jeff Weaver. He's the workhorse of this staff.
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He's part of that organizational depth chart and you like to see a younger guy like that go out and perform well against major-league competition. His outing was very encouraging and it was obvious he was more comfortable this time.
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We were pitched to death. It's the best game that's been pitched against us all year.
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What takes place between the pitcher's mound and behind the plate is vitally important to the success of a major-league team. I think Ryan is realizing that more every day.
dominated
We got pitched to death. He dominated the game.
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I've never signed up for anything with the thought in mind that I wanted to be mediocre. I feel pretty good about it.
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I've never seen Curt Schilling go out and start a game with the intention of hurting people. But if you start hitting people in the head... you need to be very careful of that.
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It was wonderful to see them. They represented themselves extremely well. Timmy Hill should be very proud about the way his kids competed.
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I started to fall in love with the game of baseball when my dad gave me my first set of baseball cards, ... I kept the ones I recognized. The guys I didn't were the ones I put in the spokes of my bicycle with clothes pins.
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Is Oliver Perez important to us? And Kip Wells? Sure, they are. But we've got a whole clubhouse full of guys that are important to us.
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Is he not a guy going into day one who is considered a Gold Glove candidate -- and a Gold Glove candidate that can go out there and get 200 base hits if he uses the whole field and hits intelligently with the situations that are in front of him?