It's something you look forward to every year — playing different teams and playing different leagues to see how you compare.

It's just a matter of getting that big hit. We just haven't done it in the clutch, and that's what this game is all about. We are 1-4 and it is early in the season. But we need to pick it up. There is too much talent in this clubhouse.

I'm very surprised about the stuff that's happening and the attitudes. I just can't understand why it seems the willingness to go out there and give it all you got and win is just not there.

I've been in this organization, the Montreal/Nationals organization, from the onset of it. It's just a shock that I'm not going to be with the same organization, the same people I've been around my whole career. That's going to be different.

Getting over the fact of not watching what he does mechanically and focusing on where [the ball] comes from, I think that's the key.

He buzzed my tower, ... and guys in the dugout got upset.