I would say they're a No. 1. They're a good team. They've got some young guys coming off the bench. I think they'll be fine as long as Carney can lead them and they don't let the youth really take advantage of it.

When we have people coming off the bench like Andre and Hassan, guys who could start for any other team in the country, I think that's kind of amazing to some people,

They have a really good team and those guys off the bench played hard. We wanted to take care of business, no matter who was out there.

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.

We have the team. We're balanced and athletic. Our bench is great, and our bullpen depth is better. We just need to worry about each day and go from there. We need our pitchers healthy, and this spring looks good as far as health.

I'm blessed to have a team where there is little or no separation between the starters and the bench players. That makes for good competition within our team, because our starters know if they don't perform at a certain level they will lose their jobs.