Brian Cashman Fully Quotations

Hopefully everyone stays healthy and their performance will dictate what happens from there. Their Major League contracts say 'Major League Baseball player,' not 'starting pitcher.' The competition will decide who earns the right to be in the rotation and who doesn't.

Obviously it's something that's unique and difficult. We'll lose some guys for a period of time. Hopefully they produce at high levels for those clubs, stay healthy and get back to us whenever their WBC season is over.

Like every year, we try to put together the best staff possible; hopefully we've done that. We have a lot of experience, a lot of people our players can go to for help.

Hopefully the process that we covered today will help put us in better position to do so. But time will tell.

He works hard at his defense. He's gotten better and better, and now he's got two. Hopefully there are many more to come.

It was great to see him come out and throw with the stuff he had today. Obviously, when he's right, he's very, very difficult, so thankfully he was right on today.

My hope is that Gary and I will continue having discussions directly with each other, and the rest of it can stay out of the press. Hopefully this is all behind us and we can go forward. There will be a time and a place for the option.

It's helpful, but we're hoping we don't have to turn to those options. We have more depth on paper than we did last year, and hopefully they're quality options. There's a very high ceiling.