He is a very astute, very knowledgeable, very committed person. He loves baseball, but more important he's an excellent student.

That surprised me. He's getting better and better all the time.

You can't give a team like Ketcham an edge. They'll take advantage of it.

He has a great mix of pitches. He has an excellent breaking ball, a great slider, and probably his best pitch is the straight change off the fast ball.

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

I went through baseball as "a player to be named later."