Josh Paul Quotations

Joe's awesome. He's a different kind of manager. He has no ego. He's a great communicator. He's been around. I think everybody is going to love him.

(Shields) looked great, looked sharp. Shields was spotting everything where he wanted it. Seth started a little jittery, probably because it was his first time out. But he settled in and made some good pitches. He has a good fastball and a good, old-school breaking ball.

I think what you see more with the computer thing now is two-game series. Those are rough things. You don't unpack your bag. You come in, you're wearing your suit and you wear your suit to the next game.

It was very, very disappointing for us. Our guys, especially Escobar, battled to get to that spot (and) got the out, so it's very frustrating it wasn't called the right way.

It starts to wear on you by the end of the day. You start to get to know the person by sorting through their things, but then, it's just wooden framework left.

It's that and nothing else. He's decided to do that. It's just a matter of doing it next time . .... The past couple of starts he's really bared down and focused. I think he's really making some serious progress in his mental game. We all know he has the physical tools.

Good luck. That's how many strikeouts (an average of 245) over how many years (27)? Straight. Without getting hurt, without whatever. That's pretty good.

It's very, very disappointing. I've never seen that happen before and it's really tough in this situation.

I did nothing wrong. The same thing I said after the game. It already is in the past. It happened a day-and-a-half ago now. We've got to win today.

You need to reinforce the simple aspects. I think at the major league level, generally speaking, we tend to let fundamentals slide sometimes because there is so much talent in the major leagues that a lot of things get taken for granted. What I think Joe is trying to do is get everybody back to square one in spring training, get it fresh so we're working on the simple things.