Mike Hargrove Good Quotations

I don't anticipate it taking him a long time to catch up. Kenji is a good baseball player, number one, and it has been my experience that good players know how to get people out.

He's a good player. He's a good hitter, a good defender and a good baserunner. He also plays hard all the time. He certainly is a tremendous role model for all our young players, or anyone else who wants to watch.

He's pitched well every outing. The last two have been exceptionally well pitched. But he's been good every outing. It's good to be able to win one when he's pitched well.

He was only supposed to go two innings, but the way he threw, we stretched him out to three. He had real good command of his fastball and a real good breaking ball.

He was rushing, he was missing his spots. He threw a couple of good pitches, then he'd get away from it. It's still early in the season.

He didn't have command of anything, ... He got away with some hanging breaking balls early, but he didn't get away with the one he threw to Barajas. It wasn't a good night for Felix.

He didn't have command of anything. He got away with some hanging breaking balls early, but he didn't get away with the one he threw to Barajas. It wasn't a good night for Felix.

He is as was advertised. He's a good solid catcher, he has a good quick release. He has an average to a little above average arm that's accurate, and he's a very intelligent player. I'm glad he's on our side.

His velocity was good from the first pitch on. Joel threw the ball extremely well.

He's a veteran player and if he stays healthy, he's a good player.

Joel was awfully good. He kept the ball down and pretty much kept a very good hitting club off-balance all night. The balls they hit hard we had them played right.

I was especially pleased with the way Woods threw. It's good to see them start to step up. We've been waiting for a couple of weeks for it to happen.

Matt has been a good big-league player. We'll make the switch to get him some at-bats ... give Jeremy time to regroup. If Matt swings and plays the way Matt can, it will make things interesting.

Jamie did a very good job. He threw well enough to win, but so did the other guy.

Rodriguez has got good stuff, and Lopez laid off that curveball when he got behind and got the count 3-2, and then hit the double. Betancourt came through in a big situation. That's good to see.

I thought our pitching was pretty good today. The Angels have a good team but we pitched well, hit pretty well and defensively played well. That one lapse in the sixth inning hurt us, obviously.

I think it's good for our players to see these guys receiving a ring like this. Getting that ring is what it's all about.

I wasn't concerned about the strikeouts. He caught the ball well. He received the ball well. He made a good play on a short-hop (pitch in the dirt) to get the first out of the game.

We have options. It wouldn't do any good to discuss them before I talk to Bill. That would be putting the cart before the horse.

We really needed somebody to come in and shut the Indians down. Seeing how well they're swinging the bats, that's not an easy proposition. He gave us two very good innings and almost gave us three. We really extended him and he responded well.

That was big. Sherrill gets a big strikeout against a very good hitter and then Mateo gets one of the most dangerous hitters in baseball in a situation like that.

You look back and are thankful that he reacted the way he did. It's not good to see him get into trouble, but it's good to see him get out of trouble. I'd rather have less-stressful learning experiences.

When I say Dan Wilson is one of the good guys, for me, that's the ultimate compliment. Very few of us, in all walks of life, rarely say and do the same thing. There's nothing phony about Dan Wilson. He talks the talk and walks the walk. Anytime someone like that leaves, we're all worse off for it.

With no outs and a runner on second, it's a good play. It was his choice to get the runner over like that, and it was his second great bunt in two nights.

On the whole it was a good outing. There were a lot of times when Gil over-threw and cost himself a higher pitch count early. But he seemed to settle down in the third, fourth and fifth, got the ball down and made pitches when he needed to.

Two or three of them we could have kept for another week, but to get one inning in a week is not good for them or us. Sending them down makes sense, let them get ready for the season.

The good ones you have to get as early as you can. He settled down more quickly than we hoped. Washburn settled down, too, but not as quickly. That was the game: Santana settled down and gave up one run, and Jarrod settled down and gave up four.

You see guys now who are hitting .400 who, come September or July, they're going to be hitting .200. And there are guys who are notoriously slow starters who, as the season gets going, they'll play up to their career averages. We have guys who are not performing well right now who have good track records, and they'll be there when all is said and done.

I know the wind was blowing out, but that ball was spanked, so it probably would have been a homer regardless. And that's good to see.

I'm especially pleased with the way Woods threw the ball. And Gonzalez. It's good to see those guys step up. We've been waiting for it for a few weeks, and it's still not too late.

It was good to see. He might have muddied the picture a little bit.

He's thrown strikes when he's pitched. He's shown a good breaking ball, which we knew he had.

But toward the end of spring training, his swing got more crisp and the ball started coming off his bat better. With good hitters, you see that happening. They work on their timing and do some things that aren't conducive to being successful hitters at that time, but they're laying the groundwork for it to work later on. We're certainly seeing his swing turn around.

He swings the bat and we can use every good bat we can get. I'm very excited about him joining the ball club.

He's just a good player. He's a good hitter, a good defender and a good baserunner. He's a tremendous role model for all our younger players.

He threw a lot of strikes and got a lot of ground balls. I really expected him to throw a complete game. But the Angels have an awfully good ballclub and you have to keep them down when they are down.

It wasn't a bad outing. it wasn't a great outing. It was just a Spring Training outing. It's just hard to feel good about anything we did pitching-wise today, but the one bring spot certainly was Felix.

a good kid whose heart is in the right place, who made a mistake two years ago.

The kid had good stuff. I was sitting in the dugout wondering how many pitches to give him for a chance at his no-no. I was in a quandary. I probably would have let him go to 130 pitches, but we'll never know.

The kid had good stuff tonight and I'm sitting there in the sixth wondering how many pitches to give him to try and get his no-no,

It's not very typical of him to miss as badly as he missed. That was an indication that he was feeling it tonight. But he shut them down pretty good and came back and threw well.

It's good to have them throw together. I think they can learn from each other a little bit.

I figured it was as good as any. I figured if we couldn't protect a 10-run lead ... We got him out there, and I'm not sure he took a breath the whole time he was out there.

He's not the fastest, but he's a good, aggressive base runner. He gets a good lead and when he commits to stealing a base, he really commits. He pushes the envelope and that's the key to his success.