Quotes by Brian Cashman

There are more teams looking for pitchers than there are pitchers. That’s why it’s pricey.

Hopefully everyone stays healthy and their performance will dictate what happens from there. Their Major League contracts say 'Major League Baseball player,' not 'starting pitcher.' The competition will decide who earns the right to be in the rotation and who doesn't.

I don't know how much more pressure there can be. Whatever it's going to be, it'll be.

We just want him right. He's a starter, so we need to build him back up to be a starter. But today was good news for me.

I don't know how to answer that question, ... I mean, I don't even know why you'd bring it up.

We want to give the specialist a chance to give his opinion before we do anything else. Hopefully, it's nothing. But we have a lot invested in him.

I don't know if Brian will stay or leave, but I do know he's gotten awfully tired of seeing Tampa get credit for all the deals that work out and him getting the blame for all the ones that don't. It's like he's the GM in title only.

You can't do this job with a GM and a manager that don't see eye to eye, that aren't on the same page, ... That's a recipe for disaster.

I don't think I have a high level of concern, it's just a timing issue. I think he will be ready for his next turn but that may not necessarily be Tuesday. It may be Wednesday or Thursday, or however that works out.

Until he's throwing off the mound, I guess it will be a question mark. He's got a full, clean bill of health, but he has to go out there every five days and mow hitters down without complaint.