Ned Colletti Quotations

There's a lot of things you want and one is competition. Teams that are set don't have people pushing for playing time. I believe in competition.

I'd like to talk to him before I comment on that. He has been an infielder most of his career. That doesn't mean he couldn't make the switch to left field.

It doesn't rule out Jeff, or anybody else.

I think he pitches well with confidence, and I believe we have the right staff to bring out the best in him. It's a matter of getting it all together. You never know, he may be at a point in his career where he's about to become more dominant.

We were a good team, but the reason why we won 100 games was the manager.

Without that we would have had a real tough time folding him in. Their willingness to work with us was the key to getting it done.

Takashi Saito is a very versatile pitcher who has been a starter, reliever and closer. We believe his experience over 14 years in Japan will give him the opportunity to make the Dodgers in 2006.

His skills are very similar to earlier in his career. He knows how to play, how to win.

The opportunity to add two relievers of this caliber to our bullpen fills a big need for us.

They were precautionary. Both of those situations, we could have let them go. Both could have become a problem if we would have done that, with the rehab being longer because the damage would have been greater.