24 Quotes by Pete Mackanin

It's important he plays, but not to the point that he's totally frustrated. It looks to me like he's close to being totally frustrated. I'm going to try to look after him a little bit. He's really not helping the team at this point in time.

I'll tell you: I like having two shortstops on the left side of the infield. What you don't get from him in power, he might make up for you with his defense. You can win with Freddy Sanchez playing third.

I know it's unfortunate, but that's the way things go. It's like when a guy's got a hitting streak and you need to win a game so you pinch-hit him and he doesn't get a hit. He'll have opportunities to have streaks again.

He's faltering once in a while. I don't know why. Standing over a 3-foot putt when it counts is a lot different than airing out your driver.

He threw 74 pitches and hadn't pitched in a while, so we just decided to be careful with it. Not that I wanted to, because we need pitchers to go late in the game. I thought he was pretty good. He had more pitches early than he probably wanted, but he looked very good for a guy who hasn't pitched in three weeks.

I don't like the way he's swinging. He says he's 100 percent healthy, but I choose to believe something's bothering him.