I thought of it more with Jason in mind (than other starters), but I talked to all of them and they love it. We can't keep doing the same thing over and over again. We know we have to improve over what we have done in the past.

I talked to them (Sunday) and I talked to them (Saturday) and stressed to them that every inning is important. We are not able to coast.

He's just a model for everybody to emulate, whether it be first-pitch strikes, getting ahead in the count consistently [or] quality of location. And he's averaging eight to 10 pitches an inning. He makes his put-away pitch. I'm sure he feels very good about where he is right now.

He's had a closer mentality in his preparation even when he was a middle setup guy.

One day he was the setup guy, next day he was the closer. There wasn't that analysis of him -- is he going to be able to handle the role?

He's attacking the strike zone.