Jim Hendry Good Quotations

Obviously, we both feel it's a great situation, a great city. We feel like we had a couple good years and had a hiccup last year.

Obviously, he's going to be out a while and he's a good player. I'm sure he's devastated today because he's a total team guy who's integral to what we want to accomplish.

He was doing a lot of conditioning on the lower half of his body over the winter. He was in real good shape. Then he woke up one morning and found his knee was swollen.

He's a veteran presence, a quality bench player. He can play four spots -- first, third and both corners. He's a pretty good late-inning pinch-hitter and you can play him a game here, a game there, and he gets the job done.

I think we all feel that Cedeno's going to be a real good player,

We've done a pretty good job of developing our young pitching, but not our position players.

Too much pitching would be a good problem to have.

We are looking forward to Juan hitting in the leadoff spot. This contract is a good conclusion to the winter for both Juan and us.

We're in a situation where our young guys are pretty good players. Cedeno's going to be a real good player, I think we all see that. Murton will be back soon. I think he held his own, admirably, coming from Double-A.

We are anxious to see how Scott is after he had a very solid closing career going for a while. He started to show glimpses of some good stuff last September. He should be much better because he will be six months farther away from the surgery.

A lot of guys older than him have turned their careers around. The talent is still there, the work ethic is good and it was a situation where coming back here and taking a chance, for his sake or ours, to get out of the gate better wasn't worth the risk.

It's tougher than people think to find good starting pitching in the major leagues.

He's just as good or better a human being as he is a ballplayer. He's the kind of guy you want to keep and win with.

We just thought it was a good gamble. Hopefully it works out.

If he is not going to have a chance to be a full-time player, he is not going to be able to correct the things that led him to have a bad year last year. It was not a good fit for him to be a bench player here at this point, after what happened last year.