32 Quotes by Gord Ash

We're pleased with our Triple-A roster, particularly the rotation because there are so many good young arms there. It's hard to handicap teams at Triple-A, because you don't know what the league will be like.

There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point.

We've negotiated long and hard with both players. We'll see what develops but I'm not sure we have anything to talk about at this point.

He went through some treatment today and the doctors are continuing to be encouraged, but he's really still in that active rest period. We don't think this is going to be a quick fix.

I think that was the biggest factor. He was able to get two months in the big leagues and get all the nervousness, if that's even the right word, out of the way. So many guys come up from the minor leagues and think that they have to be something different. They think it's a different game. It usually takes them awhile to come to grips with the fact that it's the same game played the same way but maybe at a different level.

Our policy with non-roster guys is that they be added after the workout (Sunday).

I think he wants to challenge Julio Franco. When you think about it, though, there is no reason to retire if you're performing at a high level. The reason guys like that retire is they don't want to be embarrassed. Roger Clemens is not being embarrassed. He's doing the embarrassing.

We're big believers in it. In the National League, it is so important because you don't want to have to use two players to make one move.

We couldn't really tell (if the velocity was down), but obviously the hitters told you that.