Mark Shapiro
Mark Shapiro
impact level mental standard starting toughness
From a level of mental toughness and competitiveness, he has kind of reframed the standard for all of us in this organization. He made a big impact on our young starting pitchers.
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Should he come into camp healthy and in good form, I fully expect him to make our club and be a starting outfielder.
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With him not accepting arbitration and us having five starters under contract, it definitely takes us out of the Kevin Millwood competition at this point.
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We are excited to add an experienced starting pitcher to our rotation, one that represents the team we are trying to build both on and off the field.
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It's great to see him perform like that, but that is not going to affect our decision. He's doing great things, but he's going to start the season at Buffalo.
depth easily fifth guy sixth starter teams
To have a guy as your sixth starter who could very easily be your fifth starter -- we want to be a championship organization -- and that's the kind of depth championship teams have.
needs pitch starters
A lot is being made about our bullpen, but what needs to get better is our starters. Our starters have to pitch more innings.
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In Paul Byrd, we are excited to add an experienced starting pitcher to our rotation. We are pleased to bring Paul back to the organization he grew up in.
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The Colon trade was the start of everything, ... It started the change. That was the defining trade.
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You can't take stretches of weeks off, especially coming out of the Indy 500, or you lose your momentum. TV promotes a week out. The IRL will be there when its season starts in April and ends at Labor Day.
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We just played consistent in between the tackles and turned out the first downs. It was a pretty clean game for us.
club spring training
We're very comfortable going into spring training with the club we've got right now.
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ESPN Classic is going through a transition. They're thirsty to put today's news in its proper historical sports context ... History defines sports. Without that context, today's news wouldn't be as grand.
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Every time we go through something, it's a young team and we're going through it for the first time, ... Last year, it was contending late in the season, in August and September. This year ... coming out of spring training, it was the first time anybody was looking at us.