If he can hit, he can hit. I don't care if he came from Class Z league.

If he can hit, he can hit. I don't care if he came from Class Z league,

If you hit a ball well in this ballpark you can be rewarded. If you don't hit a dynamite ball in this ballpark -- in the big part of this ballpark -- you will not be rewarded. That's just the way this ballpark is. You take a chance when you get out to the bigger part of this ballpark. You take a chance.

[In this park], you got to hit it sharply, you got to hit line drives and stay away from the big part of the field.

Coming to spring training and filling three spots in your starting rotation is not good. I don't care how you look at it.

I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.