22 Quotes by Jim Fleming

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.