29 Quotes by Dave Littlefield

I think we're going to be significantly improved. And I think we're very well positioned or the next four or five years.

I think we made a decision last fall when we had our review and planning meetings that we felt comfortable with the talent level of these starters we had.

I think we've always felt Gonzalez had the talent to do it. We felt this was time to see what he can do.

It definitely can be a serious matter. There's always a concern in regards to clots, aneurysms, things like that. Evidently, we moved on it very quickly. ... I really compliment our doctors from the standpoint of detecting this.

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

We need to preserve our starting pitching depth.

We need to try to continue to get him at-bats. Because of his path the last couple of years, he hasn't had the normal number of at-bats that your prospects have. I think it's important that we get him a lot of playing time at third base. ... We want to exhaust the opportunity for him to play third base, because we are looking at our future.

Those are some challenges some young guys have to face, even guys as talented as he is. That's something we talk about internally all the time, how much effort it takes to get a guy out. Those 100 pitches in the major leagues are a heck of a lot tougher than those 100 pitches at the minor league level.

We'll see how it plays out with Burnett's health, how he does.