As a setup guy, if people are talking to you, obviously you did something bad. Otherwise you go unheard of. I guess that is a good thing.

I did meet with him. I said he had made a mistake and that people were talking about recalling him.

It's one of those things that if we came in as well as we've been playing and they beat us, they would look at us like, 'See, we told you so, ... But for us, we need to win ballgames no matter who it is against.

I definitely investigated closing. I had opportunities to go other places, get paid more money and close. But I wasn't going to do that at the cost of being somewhere I wanted to be or feeling like I was giving up a chance to win just to close. That's why I ended up choosing here. I felt it was the best situation for me and a good chance to win.

A lot of teams won't spend money on their bullpen and figure they'll [win] with their offense. [The bullpen] is a very important part of the game that I think is overlooked.

I'm not only coming back to a city I'm comfortable with, but a team that looks like it has a good chance to win.