Ryan Wagner has a great sinker, a great slider. It's just a matter of when he's going to put it together.

When pitchers are pitching well, they're repeating well, physically and mentally. I don't know about the mental part of it, because I'm not in [Hudson's] head. But physically, he gets out of sync, and it takes him a few batters to get it back.

When you talk about center fielders like Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays and Mantle, he's up there with them, ... If he hadn't missed the last three-four years with injuries, he'd probably have at least 100 more homers.

When he's ready to pitch in the Major Leagues, we'll bring him up, if that's April 1 of this year or its April 1, 2008. My whole thing is if you're ready, not how much time you've spent in the Minors.

Someday is Sept. 6,

It took awhile to get his legs under him. We're seeing over the last month the kind of pitcher he is.