You'd like to see him get three or four starts down here. You have to remember after he hardly pitched last spring he only missed one start until hit by the line drive. Maybe he's just not a spring-training guy. It'll ease everybody's mind once he gets into action.
Quotes about spring-training (4 Quotes)
Ebony magazine would send a writer and photographer down to spring-training camps in the 1960s to do a big story every year on the black players on major-league teams. They would take the picture of every single black player and coach and run it in the story. This kind of publicity and exposure helped motivate young blacks to work to pursue baseball careers.
This is your typical, ugly spring-training game. They happen a lot. We just happened to be on the right side of it, and we'll happen to be on the wrong side of these some this spring. That just happens.
Tim made the decision Tuesday night. He wants to express clearly to the fans that he wants to come back, but it's up to ownership. The one thing he doesn't want is to go into spring-training games without an extension. If it goes beyond that, Tim is going to play out the season and he is going to leave.