Brian Graham
Brian Graham
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You're looking at someone who has that leadoff ability but also could get you home runs. We see Andrew as having a power kind of swing, and we want to make sure we give him the opportunity to develop that.
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Patrick was just a wonderful person. He was the guy who lit up the room.
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I like the fact that the players are here mentally prepared to work hard and make the team. This is the most focused camp I've seen in four years.
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That's quite a difference from the regular season where the development and the major emphasis is, 'If today doesn't go so well, then there's always tomorrow.'
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There was a need early on with the Pirates that you had to bring guys to the big leagues because you had to have people to fill positions.
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Not right now. I don't think anybody's going to know who's the best player or players in the country until next year. Everybody has his own favorites, of course, but it might take until April until there's some kind of consensus.
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You can't put a time-table on anybody. Sometimes it's necessity. Sometime it's the right circumstance. But I'm fairly confident that you're going to see all of them eventually. That talent in these guys is just too great.
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I think they stepped it up, and we didn't. They were putting high pressure on us, and we were just falling back.
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He felt he was comfortable from a developmental standpoint and had gotten enough innings in. I think that's his best role.
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We've had a couple bad spots on defense, but it's been pretty solid overall. We had good starting pitching, hitting and solid defense. It was a very good team effort.
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He was throwing the ball well with command of four pitches. He wasn't throwing with the velocity that we saw in college, but from a performance standpoint, he definitely was on the track we expected.
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If you push a player to a level above his ability, he goes into survival mode and he doesn't get better. All he does is try to play to survive regardless of how talented he is.
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His fastball is above average in terms of life and velocity, he has a hard breaking ball and the changeup has become a solid third pitch. And when his command gets better and he's able to throw his pitches where he wants, he can be a really good all-around pitcher.