488 Quotes by Jim Tracy

I'd be very surprised if he participates between now and the season's end. First, there's the health, and second, with 20 games left, there's no place to rehab with live pitching. It would be unfair to put him into the lineup without seeing live pitching.

If he does come back, there's a zero percent change that he'll be his full self, ... No chance.

It's not the greatest thing in the world to go 4-6 like we did. But it's not the end of the world, either, when you compete like we have.

I won't say where they are going to start. But he is the type of guy we are looking for to hopefully place in between two left-handers that have somewhat similar stuff and not give opposing clubs an opportunity to see the same type of stuff on consecutive days.

Every time he comes up in a situational at-bat, the job gets done.

I am a firm believer in the fact that a group of guys needs to understand the importance of 90 feet, that it makes the difference in a baseball game. These players will gain a strong realization of that.

If he's hitting in 2-0 and 3-1 counts, the ball is going to be put in play -- probably hard. You just hope it's hit at somebody.

It's one more thing we have to deal with this year and one thing we have to bring into next season.

I was harshly criticized for the decision to make Eric Gagne a closer,