They'll have a good team this year. They've got good relief pitching and starting pitching now, and they've got some bats.

We knew we were a good team all year. We knew we could compete with anybody. We've shown that over the last month with our play.

He was one of our top pitching recruits last year. He's had a few relief outings and struggled some. We know he has potential, but it's a mind thing with him. He needs to gain confidence at this level.

The advantage of having really good starting pitching is that we know the game will be close. Nevertheless, we have to try to put up as many runs as possible.

We've been a fast-starting team for most of the year. It was a comfortable feeling to get out to a big lead. The middle two quarters it seemed like our advantage was between 10 and 13 points, which was close enough, but not far enough ahead.

If you look around at everything that has happened to me, to the whole starting pitching staff, if we have had won all those little games, then the whole pitching staff should be Cy Youngs. It didn't happen for me to get those wins, but that doesn't mean I'm done working.