Dave Duncan Hard Quotations

He hasn't needed it. But he's going to need something like that at the major league level. It's hard to pitch at the top of the strike zone.

You can't always do what you would like to do, so you just hope the situation presents itself. You're aware of how much they're throwing, how hard (the starters) are working. That influences what you do. But we're still going to play the games and try to win them.

It's hard to identify who's No. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Because at different times, each one of those guys gets on a roll. And at that particular time, he's the No. 1 guy for us. ... Every one of them has had their periods of time when they threw as good as anybody.

I'm not forming any hard opinions one way or the other. It's way too early. . . . Gradually things clarify themselves.