I don't think he feels like he's 20 years old anymore. But I don't think that's why he left pitches over the plate.
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Last year he learned how to be a major league starter on a real good team. He hit a couple bumps in the road earlier, but he's good.Terry Francona
With him in the bullpen, the stability was really, really good. Even the games Schill had a tough time, we didn't have to use Mike Timlin so often at a time when Foulke went down. We might have run into some problems, but we didn't. It was really good for us. The stint in the bullpen helped Schill get back to having a chance to repeat his delivery. It worked out well for everybody. At the time, he just wasn't ready to be a starter. We tried to time it to when Foulke came back. We had to get him seven starts. Just three wouldn't be fair. But we said all along we wanted to get him back in the rotation.
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He spent all week working and working, and he was very good. We weren't going to let a couple of innings sway our judgment. Red Sox Nation might have been in a little bit of an uproar, but he's too conscientious, and he's too good defensively.
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J.T.'s a good enough hitter where, if something happens, he can hit. But if you have a guy who's Gold Glove caliber and you have a lead, I think it's silly to sit him there until the ninth just so you can let your starting first baseman get one more possible at-bat. So I think I would be more inclined to take a guy out earlier and take advantage of your defense.
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You run into nights like tonight, when you don't have an answer for anything they're doing and it only gets worse.
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It means we have one of the most dangerous hitters in the game hitting back-to-back with David Ortiz. When Manny gets hot, he's not going to hit singles. We hope he hits a bunch of homers.
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