Jim Fleming Quotations

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We've always let our guys like Miguel play toward the end, but not the whole season. They all want to play for their hometown teams down there. So we oblige within reason.

She was very close to hitting that one. She was feeling it at that point.

If we can't build in Lehigh, the next best thing is to build on the periphery.

Get in the market. Get in the game. The only way we are going to be able to get the commercial land we need is by assembling lots and rezoning them.

He is as advertised. He is very very mature for a high school kid and he is physically in charge of his body for a 6-foot-7 guy. That's very rare to see anybody who has good body control and command of his pitches with his size. He is very good.

He's always hit. He's a big, strong guy who has always been able to swing the bat. He knows how to play the game. He's a solid guy.

He's always been able to swing the bat. He's cut out of the Lemke mold. He's like the guys who play for the A's; they swing the bat and play hard.

We hope they're the two catchers of the future. We wanted Joe to see them and Gary Tuck to see them, and have them see all the pitching. It kind of advances them along a little bit.

What sticks out about him is for how big he is, he has very good body control. He has a really nice delivery. This is not a work in progress. This isn't a projection guy, per se. There is always projection in high school kids. But there is a lot of good stuff already in place here with him.

We missed eight free throws in the first half. Man, oh man, oh man, oh man. I'll have a hard time forgetting about this one.

We think that the emergency is that FGUA has permitted too many hook-ups. I think it's an overcapacity issue.

We wanted him to get his feet back on the ground, to get him back on the mound throwing and improving.

Ramirez and Andino both have the potential to be very good with the bat. Guys like that eventually start hitting the way they are expected when they reach the big leagues.

This is big for Chris. He needed some extra at-bats.

The biggest thing is getting him healthy. It's not that anything has deteriorated. It's being able to get him to swing the bat.

The book on him is he's an extremely talented athlete with a big ceiling.

It's can you win? These guys can win. It's a combination of having good stuff and having the ability to win.

It wasn't by design. It's because that's what we felt this draft had as its biggest value.

Closers all of a sudden create themselves. Look at Todd Jones. He was a better closer last year than he was before.

He's just about everything that you want. He's 6-foot-7 and has tremendous body control. He has three present pitches and a tremendous feel for pitching. He's aggressive and isn't afraid of contact. Young pitchers have a tendency to want to strike everyone out, but he just wants to get them out.

He calls it a slider. You can call it a hard curveball because it's got a lot of break to it. That's the pitch we want him to focus on. It wasn't a new pitch. It was kind of eliminating one and putting more focus on the other.