Joe Girardi Days Quotations

Obviously we've lost a bunch of tough games this year. Then we pretty much got blown out two days in a row. For our guys to bounce back, it says something about our guys. ... Guys picked it up.

Seventeen days in you can't keep making the same mistakes. You can't just work your butts off and throw it away because you want to do too much.

Guys are just doing the little things, taking advantage. And our two-strike at bats the first two days have been tremendous.

I think Josh has made a lot of strides in the 10 days, 12 days we've been here. If he continues to progress, it's going to be a very, very difficult decision. I'm really happy with that. But that doesn't mean he doesn't keep working. I'm happy with the progress. A lot of that credit goes to Gary Tuck.

Miguel played a few days in a row. Josh is going to play a few days in a row. We'll eventually work up to three days in a row. It's hard because we have two catchers that need to play. We'll start stretching them out the last couple of weeks.

The extra two days won't hurt. He was confident he could pitch, but the toe has been bothering him a little bit.

We've seen the last few days what he's capable of. That's exciting stuff.

He's still going to catch. But we believe he will be more productive if he doesn't catch six days a week.

You could almost see the weight lift off his shoulders. I've said the last few days that his swings were getting better.

It's tough to ask a guy to catch 120 games a year when he's never done it before. We believe he'll be more productive if he doesn't catch six days a week.... We want to make sure he's productive the whole year.

It's embarrassing. We can't keep making mistakes. Seventeen days in, we can't keep making mistakes.

It's embarrassing. We can't keep making mistakes. We're 17 days into the season now.

We gave Eric several days in a row, and now we're giving Reggie a bunch of days in a row. We've got to get one of our center fielders going. When you're young, this can be a tough game to get it going. The danger is you don't have anything to fall back on at this level. I always say you find out what a guy's made of when he struggles.

It's going to come down to the last days and that makes it tough. That's the nature of our camp this year.