It's an honor to represent your country, but as a pitcher, it's harder to be where you need to be that early in March. I have to put what's best for my team first.
I couldn't tell. I was watching and I know the umpire tried to make the best call he could. Fortunately, it went our way.
Joey D had a little rude awakening to the big leagues last year. But the kid has a lot of talent and a tremendous ceiling ahead of him. We're hopefully going to help him reach it the best we can. I know where I was right out of college, and I wasn't where he's at.