4 Quotes by Pat Bloom

Our bullpen didn't perform up to par. We put in several guys to get out of tough situations and they didn't come through. It's a major concern. The last two years, the bullpen has been our strength. By and large, in those situations guys have come through for us. We're definitely working to address that problem.

We still have a key area we need to address on offense. For various reasons that hasn't come around, and we're going to keep addressing it.

The biggest surprise was that our offense just didn't get it done. We had runners on in innings one through nine. We just didn't get the key hits we needed.

The foundation of our club is pitching and defense. We have a core group of six or seven guys who we can give the ball to and they'll get us outs. We wanted to keep all our top guns sharp.