Kelly Stinnett Quotations

He made a couple of mistakes in the fifth inning. His arm was dragging a little bit.

He's a challenge to catch. It takes a lot to catch him, because he brings a lot to the table. He throws hard, he's intense and he expects a lot out of his catcher.

He was dropping down and his slider was getting flat. It was staying in the same plane. He has to get it up high and get that ball to come down, so the hitters could swing on top of it like they were earlier in the game.

Jorge is going to catch. That's the bottom line.

I was always scared by not having a mask on. I feel more comfortable that way.

I was expecting lights-out. Typical Randy, going out there and pitching his game.

I thought he was looking at me. It's too bad it happened. We've become pretty good friends. I don't want anything to happen to Jorge.

That was my number growing up, No. 5, in baseball and football. He was my favorite player; I wore it because of him. He grew up about 30 minutes from where I grew up.

We were just playing catch and I thought he was looking at me. ... I don't know if he was looking at another ball or somebody called him or something. I thought he had it, but at the last second he went up and missed it.

We'll sit down and watch tomorrow to see if he was tipping. We really don't know. You get in the heat of battle and things happen. He might have been squeezing his glove on a slider or squeezing it on a fastball. We don't know.

To me he seems satisfied with how it has gone this spring. Randy is not the kind of person who walks around singing because this is a serious business for him. But he looks comfortable.

I've seen him throw 140-150 pitches in a game. It kind of surprised me, but it's nice to give him a break.

They put some pretty good hacks up there.

You don't want to be a deadbeat back there. But any backup catcher is a deadbeat.

It's not going to be an issue whatsoever. Jorge and I have talked about it, and we're going to do what's best for the team. We want to get to the playoffs, and that's where Jorge makes his living. He's such a good hitter; you've got to have his bat in there. I realize that I just have to be ready whenever Joe needs me.

It looked like his arm was dropping a little bit and he got a little tired. So it was good to get him out of there.

It was a pretty hard-hit ball. He had nowhere to go, he tried to backhand it.

I'll come in every day and prepare for that one day, two days a week, that I'm able to start. It's been good. I caught him in Arizona for two years. We're pretty comfortable with each other as far as I know.

He brings a whole different level of intensity to the game. And he expects that from his catcher. He's a power pitcher and he's as good as he is for a reason, because of that intensity.