488 Quotes by Jim Tracy

What we're seeing right now is, in my mind, identical to what we saw last year, when it took him a few starts to get untracked, and then you see one quality start after another. His teammates recognize that's he gonna leave everything that he has on the field, and it's very easy to step up for a guy like that.

He's a very smart young man. He's done all the things that he's been asked to do on a day-to-day basis. There is, in fact, not anything I've seen from him that I haven't liked.

That's how people learn. That's our responsibility to make sure those things are taken care of.

I'm not going to sit there and second-guess my players. It's a youthful player. Let's be honest.

That showed something. You pin him into a corner, and he comes out swinging.

He's going to have a lot more good days than bad days, because he gets it.

We obviously came to a point in Los Angeles where there was a difference of opinion between Paul and I as far as how players are evaluated.

I laud my players, and I told them that, way back, playing in Philadelphia. The effort that they have given from day to day is noteworthy because, believe me ... if you go back and you research some of those lineups that we had out on the field ... I think it'll tell you an awful lot about the character that these players have displayed between the lines, in going out there and giving you every single thing they've got.

He's going to get the ball in the ninth inning. We'll see how it goes. We've got a guy who is a complete novice in that environment. But what I see is a player that an opportunity has been created for him and he's seizing the opportunity.