417 Quotes by Ned Yost

He's fine. Right now, it's almost as if nothing happened.

I told him I didn't want to take him out of the game. I wanted to give him an opportunity to get through the inning so we could score some runs for him and get him his 18th win. I told him to get after him and be aggressive.

We thought it would be better for him to throw under game conditions rather than trying to do a simulated game tomorrow. Now, he'll have an extra day of rest before his first start.

He's working on his fielding and arm. We're not thinking about moving him to third.

I told him he'll never know how good he can be if he doesn't go out and try it.

He's been an important piece to our starting rotation, along with Ben Sheets and Doug Davis. They've really solidified the first three starting spots.

We're over the hump for tonight. You never want to get there (.500) and keep falling back like we did. Again, we're over .500 tonight. We got to make sure we stay over .500 again tomorrow night.

He threw the ball OK, but he got a few pitches up in the strike zone. The wind blowing out didn't help him.

I told our guys it's very important for us to go home this winter and not give anybody the ability to call us losers again. They've been called that for 12 straight years.