Dave Littlefield Quotations

His performance isn't up to what we've seen in the past.

I don't know, exactly. But that's something we'll have be doing at some point here soon.

It's time to see if he can do it.

I'm still comfortable in what we have in-house.

It's going to be interesting, I think. There will be a few guys who will pop out of this thing. It's hard to say who it's going to be.

Considering this will be his first full season making every start, I'm just looking for a consistent performance. If he learns the major-league scene and experiences a full year healthy, that will be progress.

I was comfortable that Jim Tracy was an excellent choice. I'm confident, from having worked with the guy for five or six years, that he's a very good communicator, he understands the game well, he has lots of experience as a Major League and Minor League manager, and he's won.

What we've seen this spring is that we have many players who are very close to being ready to play at the major-league level.

At this point, he just isn't ready, performance-wise. He needs some time in the Minor Leagues to get things back together where he feels and we would feel he could compete at the Major League level.

Right now, Chris Duffy is the starting center fielder and we're going to go in that direction. I don't think either guy has a solid position on a job. Both of them have got to continue to work hard to establish themselves as big leaguers. Neither one is an established big leaguer, but we have very high hopes for both of them.