Jim Tracy Looking Quotations

I think Oliver Perez has to realize that he has to help settle the waters. I'm not looking for perfection. You don't expect that. Just keep us in the game. Keep us around.

I won't say where they are going to start. But he is the type of guy we are looking for to hopefully place in between two left-handers that have somewhat similar stuff and not give opposing clubs an opportunity to see the same type of stuff on consecutive days.

It doesn't get any better than that. It's what we've been talking about all spring - we went up there looking for something good to take a swing at.

We have three good catchers. Our attitude is we're looking forward to seeing what they can do.

The allure, for me, was, No. 1, the stability of the front office. The other thing was looking at a group of players I'd managed against the past couple of years and realizing there's some terrific young talent here and asking myself the question 'Why can't it be better than it has been?

We're looking to get guys at-bats. We're going to play our best guys and hope the best in them comes out.

We're looking for 35 or 38 or 39, and this is an opportunity to find out who are those guys beyond the 25.

This is about the time he should get started. You're not looking for this guy to be out there for two- and three-inning stints. It's completely unnecessary to do that with him.

I'm looking forward to spearheading this ball club to back to some of the days when the Pittsburgh Pirates were somebody you really had to deal with. I'm very anxious in making the players understand there is history here - history for them to be proud of and history for them to follow up on.

He's probably looking at a three-week time frame.

I do feel that way. And that's because I've seen some of the guys in this rotation be very good, even though I was looking at that from afar. What's more, I know that they know what they have to do.