Joe Girardi Quotations | Page 3

I think I made most of my strides as a catcher working under him. He is the one guy I really felt I had to have.

I think he's handling it great. I don't think he is going out of his zone a lot. He's taking what they give him. You see him always hit the ball to the right side, if that's what they're giving him. Very seldom do you see him move his swing. That means to me he is handling it great.

I think he'll play catch up most of spring training just because of the time he's missed. He's going to play catch up the whole year really ... but that's OK. A lot of great pitchers have had to do it.

We fall asleep and the guy scores. You can't forget who's on base. I call it always thinking ahead and knowing your base runners and knowing what the run means. We learned the hard way. Again.

We fall asleep, and the guy scores. It can't happen.

He showed he has the ability to drive in runs. We need that all up and down the lineup.

He showed for a month last year that he was a guy who can hit some home runs. If you hit home runs, you obviously are going to put up big numbers. He had 11 in a month -- basically, in 100 at-bats. If you project that out, that would be real nice for any club.

We haven't seen Amezaga play yet. I'm happy for him that Mexico is winning, but it's making it kind of tough.

We just changed some things. We've changed some other pitches. I'm excited to see how he pitches, actually. I'm excited to see what transpires, when we get home.

You don't ever think you're going to score 12 runs. That's a lot of runs, but guys kept hitting. They got a lot of big hits.