“Or who knows. This year, more than many of the years in the past, I think it's wide open. There are so many teams who could jump up this year and take it.”
“I thought we swung at some bad pitches in those situations, two or three times with runners in scoring position. We made outs on not-real-good pitches. We had the middle of our order [up] and we needed to drive in some runs.”
“We tried to talk about that, we said hey, the big man might sting one sometime during the night and if he does, it's not the end of the world because he has done it a few times against some other people.”