Jim Tracy Quotes on Opportunity (19 Quotes)

Our golden opportunity was in the seventh inning. We had the bases loaded, we had one out, we had a 3-1 count and we just didn't get it done.

He's going to get the ball in the ninth inning. We'll see how it goes. We've got a guy who is a complete novice in that environment. But what I see is a player that an opportunity has been created for him and he's seizing the opportunity.

Not all of our starters are 22 years old, but we do have four of them that are 24 or less. We have to allow a little bit of time to allow these guys to have the opportunity to stabilize themselves.

I won't say where they are going to start. But he is the type of guy we are looking for to hopefully place in between two left-handers that have somewhat similar stuff and not give opposing clubs an opportunity to see the same type of stuff on consecutive days.

To sit on Mike Gonzalez until the ninth inning might have put you in a position where you don't get an opportunity to use him. It just made all the sense in the world.

Think about the ... significance of ... how many at-bats he takes this year with men on base because the guy (Casey) hitting in front of him is going to be on base. There's going to be a number of times that he's going to come up to the plate with people on base and have the opportunity to either extend the inning, put a game away or extend leads. All those possibilities will be there.

Duke did a fine job. It was a quality start and he gave an opportunity for the club to win. I don't know how much more you can ask.

We had something going on in the fifth, it looked like we had a chance to get back in the game, but they cut the inning off. We took some good at-bats off him, we created some opportunity for ourselves ... but from watching him, he's got a crisp fastball and his breaking ball also is very sharp.

We had an opportunity in the first inning to get the game headed in the direction we wanted to and they got Jeff Kent to hit into the double play. From that point on, Jae Seo was in control of the game. He was throwing his offspeed pitches for strikes all day long in hitters' counts.

I'm extremely pleased with the way Edwin Jackson performed. He has an opportunity to go home on a very positive note.

We're looking for 35 or 38 or 39, and this is an opportunity to find out who are those guys beyond the 25.

That was his game to determine. It was his baseball game at that point. You have to give him the opportunity to finish it.

I don't need to say anything more. I think that both sides are moving on from something like that. You don't use things like that as an opportunity to create a rift between two clubs.

There's nothing not to like with this guy. He's a solid major league player that's just going to get better and better. You've got to find time for him ... he's got to get some opportunities.

Is he a candidate to have an opportunity to make the club I don't know the answer to that. We'll take it a day at a time and see how he progresses from a health standpoint. If he comes along quicker, that obviously creates more options for us.

We'll just have to see where he is at as he goes along. If he is fine physically, obviously the opportunity to play some, I think, would be fairly important.

He's shown me some things in batting practice and some of the other skill work that we've done that this kid has a chance to be a player. He handles the bat very well. There's a lot to like about his approach. He's very fast. He's one of those guys that he walks fast when he's just walking. He's going to get an opportunity.

It's an opportunity to get some more innings for some younger guys.

His record wasn't all that impressive, but I've seen this guy do very well at times. And I think the opportunity to acquire somebody in the Rule 5 draft ... it's not all that often you get somebody whose resume from the previous year shows 141 innings.