Casey Blake Year Quotations

Last year was last year. We're going to be a better team for that experience.

I'm getting good pitches to hit, ... It's been a down year for me, but there is still time in the season. I feel like I still have a chance to be a factor in the playoff race.

Expectations don't bother us, because we expect to win ourselves. Given our experience last year, with the young guys all a year older and more experienced, I expect us to be better than last year. It wouldn't be a good situation if nobody expected you to be able to win. But our fans and the city expect us to win, and so do we.

We just didn't have it. The end of the year came, we were asking guys for something, and we just didn't have it.

I wouldn't say we're a better team than last year at this time. But mentally, we're in a better place. Having gone through what we did at the end of last season, I think we're better off for it.