Jim Gabella Quotations

With Mario, every time he goes and tries to dive or something, we're going to hold our breath. But he's 100 percent and playing well. He swung the bat well in spring training. Vega did also. Those two guys will probably be in the middle of the lineup and kind of rely on them for some offensive power, some offensive numbers.

J.P. played some first base in college. That helps a lot. We'll be able to get his bat in the lineup a little bit more. Now it's my job to find them enough time behind the plate to try to develop them, too.

That was pretty impressive. He's got a bright future ahead of him.

We've done a lot of good things these three games to be positive about. The outcome wasn't what we wanted but if we keep playing that way and getting good pitching and playing the way we're supposed to play, the wins will start coming.

We didn't pitch very well or play defense very well. We swung the bats a bit better but when you don't pitch well and don't take care of the baseball, you're not going to win many games.

The suspended game, we kind of let that one get away. They kind of let that other one get away. That's baseball. Anything can happen. You just have to keep going out there.

Right now we're not playing very well. We're not putting anything together offensively. We can do one of two things ? we can feel sorry for ourselves or we can come back out (today) and work.

The big thing is throwing consistent strikes. If our guys can do that, they're going to have a chance to succeed. For the most part we did a good job of that. Cody in that last inning struggled a little bit with his command, settled down and made some adjustments and got them out.

It looks like we have some guys that can run, looks like we can steal some bases again. I think we have a little more pop in the bat this year in the lineup than we've had in the past.

It's hard to win when you don't score. He's got good stuff.

It's part of the game and every club goes through little spells when things don't go their way.

That's always helpful to have kids that have been in the league. I keep saying this is a tough league. To have guys that have experienced it already, it will surely help.

Their starter did a heck of a job. He did everything a pitcher's supposed to do really. You're going to have games like that. You just have to learn from it and go on.

In the last two years that's been our strong point. It looks like it's going to be pretty solid again this year.