Are Oliver Perez and Kip Wells important pieces as far as cogs in the wheel are concerned Sure, they are. But I don't like any of my players -- and I go back to having Gary Sheffield , Kevin Brown , Shawn Green -- coming to work and feeling like, 'Hey, if I don't do it, then we as a group can't get it done.' This will be my sixth year as a manager, and that won't change. I believe you'll get more from the individual if he feels like he's a part of something and can, from that point, just relax and be who they're capable of being.
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I'm not saying things would have necessarily been different if Sean was in the lineup but I think it would have helped to have a hitter who combined to strike out less 100 times over the last two seasons up in the situation. You need to make contact with a man on second and none out, and I think Sean would have given us a great chance of doing that.Jim Tracy
We talked an awful lot in Spring Training about unselfishness and the fact that we're interested, as members of this ball club, to do whatever it is that's necessary to win a Major League baseball game. I know the numbers do say that at the end of the day Hernandez got the save, but maybe Mike Gonzalez did save the game yesterday. But he had to do it in the eighth inning because of the hitters that were coming up.
Jim Tracy
He was around 90 pitches, he had gotten out of the previous inning with the tying run at second. You're going to hit for him there. He did a very good job, pitched six very good innings for us.
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Do I advocate that you go up to the plate looking to walk No,
Jim Tracy
I do feel that way. And that's because I've seen some of the guys in this rotation be very good, even though I was looking at that from afar. What's more, I know that they know what they have to do.
Jim Tracy
Mentally, he was a few years ahead of everyone he was playing with.
Jim Tracy
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