All you can ask for is strikes out of our pitchers. When you can't make the play, it can be frustrating.

He's a team leader and does a really good job behind the dish. We like having him back there.

We definitely need to work on some things. But it's baseball, and it's supposed to be fun. All we want is good attitudes. It'll be nice to get the guys outside and work on some fundamentals.

As long as he has the medical OK to play, we'll play him, but we'll be cautious.

I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

It happened as we were going out on the field. Give him a hug and... got to go play now.