Practicing in a gym doesn't get it. And you can only go out and hit in a cage so much. You need repetitions on the field. That's what we're missing.

Our numbers look good at the plate. But the hits aren't coming when we need them. Sooner or later it's going to catch up with you.

They were actually going to hit on the field, but now they'll go down and hit in the cage, ... [General manager] Theo [Epstein] asked me a few days ago if I had a problem, and I actually thought it was great. I had met Ellsbury, but [I] had not met Lowrie.

We hit on Monday, but that was it because there's no roof (on the batting cage). We couldn't take ground balls because the field was too wet. The pitchers threw a little bit in the gym on Thursday, but there was no bullpen (session).

There was a picture with barbed wire in the foreground where the riders are practicing. It hit me as a courageous thing to do under the difficult circumstances.

If you are sedentary all week long, when you do hit the gym you've got a lot more ground to cover before you see real progress.