“That's just my coaching style. We're going to be a team that really works on being able to hit balls the other way, a good two-strikes approach ? be able to run and hit, hit and run.”
“We've got to get better on a lot of things, but this is a building block. It's a process, but I don't want to say the process is going to take long because I want to win now, I want to win early and I want to win often.”
“It was a big, big issue of importance for us. We keep teaching our pitchers to pitch down in the strike zone to get ground balls, but to do that, you've got to have guys who can pick up the ball.”