Without him, we wouldn't have recovered, I don't think. He pitched like a guy that was in the rotation, one of those guys making $7 [million], $8 million.

He's a good hitter. The one guy we didn't want to face. We could have walked him if we didn't walk Baerga.

I think Renteria always has been one of the premier defensive players, plus we also talk about his clutch hitting. We were concerned about his back a little and he's had some weight problems sometimes. But the minute he was available, we hopped on it. It took the front office about three days to get Renteria ... but we had to do what it took to get him. He's that good.

Too much Martinez. He's a master out there. He's one of the game's greatest pitchers to come through.

He has been a guy who has been talked about as a rotation guy. We haven't done it yet.

We don't have a two-back rotation or anything like that. There's a starter and there's a guy who's backing him up who we would like to get plays. It will continue like this. We're going to go with our starter and we're going to try to get our backups in place.