Phil Garner Brad Quotations

I wanted to get him in, but I would like to have him maybe catch one guy, and that way when we get into these long stretches I won't wear Brad (Ausmus ) out.

The mistake we make is walking Edmonds. You have to let Edmonds hit the ball in the next count. You can't walk him, and Brad knows that.

You have to let Edmonds hit the ball. You can't walk him. Brad knows that. We were feeling pretty good, but you have to play every out. We failed to play every out tonight.

Both will get on track. Even though Brad has given up the lead and blown a couple of saves, I think he's throwing the ball pretty well. When he gets his location where he wants it to be, he's going to be fine.

Brad had a fantastic year. He was just outstanding. When you don't notice the catcher, that's when he's having a good year. He didn't let anything get by him.

I'm convinced that Brad, on several occasions, has tried to get me fired so he could take over the team this year, ... I just absolutely think Brad would make a terrific manager. I rely on him a great deal. I trust his judgment.

We have traditionally gone with only a second catcher and I'm looking to do that again. The guy becomes important because he's the only guy you have besides Brad. He's also a guy who's going to have to sit around a lot because Brad is going to play a lot. He's got to work with the pitchers and we'd like to get some offense out of him as well, but that's difficult to do because he doesn't play much.

He hit a slider where we like for Brad to throw it, and he got it up the middle. All along in this series, we talked about they were doing a nice job of hitting, and that was a classic case of it.

I think if Brad had made his pitches, we would have had a different outcome, plain and simple,