Jim Tracy
Jim Tracy
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What we're seeing right now is, in my mind, identical to what we saw last year, when it took him a few starts to get untracked, and then you see one quality start after another. His teammates recognize that's he gonna leave everything that he has on the field, and it's very easy to step up for a guy like that.
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Giving up four or five runs through five innings with your starter ... that's a lot of runs to give up and expect to win.
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He's been very professional about this right from the start of spring.
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He got 13 ground ball outs, and that's good for a nine-inning game. That's an indication of how well he pitched. That's a very positive sign ... It's March 18th, and you want to see your pitchers starting to sharpen.
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If this kid maintains the same type of mentality and approach that he possesses right now, it's a matter of time before you start strongly talking about the fact that he is a candidate to come here and start a Major League game. I look at this guy as being a very good starting pitcher some day.
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I'd love to be able to get my hands on Oliver, the sooner the better. I'd like to get him a routine and stretched out for the start of the season.
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I don't know that we'd be asking that same question ... he had a start in Milwaukee that was awfully good. He had a tough time today.
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He's a guy we'd like to get our hands back on so we can start getting him busy with some of the things we have in mind -- namely, stretching him out.
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We had three two-out base hits to score runs. You hope it's the start of something.
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Did the starting pitcher give you a chance every fifth day to go out there and win? -- that's the biggest element I look at. (Santos) was pretty good at that last year.
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Duke did a fine job. It was a quality start and he gave an opportunity for the club to win. I don't know how much more you can ask.
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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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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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That's not something you ever assume will be the case. But at the same time, when someone like (Izturis) starts telling you something's wrong, you pay attention to it.