20 Quotes by Rod Barajas

Whenever you play teams fighting for the playoffs, good quality teams, you want to try to win series, and we were able to do that here,

I'm a professional baseball player. Nothing that happens during a game is going to take me away from doing my job.

From what I've seen him throw, and talking to other guys who have faced him the last couple of years, he's back to the level he was with Florida. He looks incredible. He definitely could help us in the pen.

I think . . . we started from way behind. Slowly, gradually, it is starting to get there. With the job that (Mets GM) Omar Minaya's doing, and other guys that are coming up, I think it's going to open up more doors for Latin guys and African-Americans in the front office.

That was the first time that coming out of his hand almost every pitch looked like a strike and then the ball would move. It was very promising.

That's the most life I've seen in El Duque's fastball, but he seemed to lose it after 100 pitches.

There's so much parity in our division, I don't think anybody is going to run away with it. Even though we're not playing our best baseball, we're staying close. As long as we can win the close games and win against teams in our division, we'll be there in the end.

Right now, we have to throw more fastballs and changeups on the verge of a walk, and that's not where we want to be. We want to be where, if we're behind in the count, we have the confidence to throw the knuckleball for a strike and not have to give in.

R.A. is the kind of person who will battle through it if there are bumps in the road. He has set his mind on making it with the knuckleball, and he has already come a long way with it. You have to admire what he is doing and how he is doing it.