Brad Kullman Quotations

To go through a hearing process at this time, we wanted to avoid that at all costs, and we were successful in the end so we're thankful for that. It's a nice raise for him.

It's always surprising. You work so hard for an organization. People say nice things about you, and then this happens.

We're very high on Eddie. Hopefully, he'll come to Spring Training and grab that job. It's his to take.

They've been intensive. They will get more intensive until we get something done. I'm hopeful. We're focusing all of our energies to do that now. We'll reach closure one way or another.

It's not a very active time right now. A few teams are making deals, as people can see, but a lot of teams aren't really in that mode.

We're glad to have it behind us. I hate going through the hearings. We're glad we got it done with Felipe.

He may force our hand to make the club and could help this team.

We worked hard the last couple years to try and help him recover from a gruesome ankle injury, develop consistency and mature on the field and off the field, and he's made tremendous progress. We're really proud of how far he came to have the year he had last year and we're hopeful he can build upon that and continue to grow into a better major league player. He'll be a big part of what we do going forward.

So I wouldn't be surprised if in the next week, we try to do something. Whether it's possible or not, I don't know.

We've spent a lot of time on both of them, and we will redouble our efforts on the Adam Dunn front to reach a conclusion one way or another. We've had detailed discussions and they've laid out their thought process in great detail, which we appreciate. We need to try and reach some type of middle ground.