He's made a very favorable impression on everybody. He's done everything a non-roster guy can do to be noticed and really have a chance to make the club.

This way we only have one guy out of his normal position. Felipe has been hitting second, and Phillips has been down in the order.

He understood. We kept him until the end. There aren't too many times when a non-roster guy gets more than 45 at-bats. You could tell in the last week, he was trying to get four hits every at-bat.

There was no continuity. There wasn't much in the way of crossover regarding the roster or coaching. If you look at what's been successful worldwide, they have a national team and the players take pride in playing for the national team.

When pitchers are pitching well, they're repeating well, physically and mentally. I don't know about the mental part of it, because I'm not in [Hudson's] head. But physically, he gets out of sync, and it takes him a few batters to get it back.

Someday is Sept. 6,