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"Every new data point is useful. We’ll see how Dillon [Gee] throws and see how Noah [Syndergaard] throws. This isn’t a competition, but it’s new information. So rather than speculating on what will happen, we’ll let things unfold and try to make decisions accordingly." -Sandy Alderson [ESPN]
This might be the classist Quote we have all year.
"[Noah Syndergaard] sent me a message and I texted him back. I said, ‘No worries. It’s part of the game. Don’t be afraid to throw inside. You’re going to have a long career, a beautiful career. Just continue doing what you are doing. Don’t put this in your head that I’m scared to throw inside.’" -Carlos Gomez after getting hit in the head with a Syndergaard fastball [Journal Sentinel]
All parties are saying the right things…
"I just want to start by saying I hope Gomez is OK. I hope he doesn’t miss any playing time. I just tried to go in on a pitch and just lost control of it. It’s never really happened to me before, so it kind of rattled me. I was a little more timid to go inside. If that hadn’t happened, I probably would’ve gone inside to Braun instead of throwing it away." -Noah Syndergaard [New York Daily News]
…wait, what? That’s your take away?
"He was outstanding today, but the real character was after he hit Gomez. Upset as he was when I walked out to the mound, he reined himself in and got out of the inning. I was really impressed. You could tell he was shook up." -Terry Collins [New York Daily News]
Can we have smiles after 9 innings too?
"You go 14 innings, you'd like to leave with a smile on your face." -Terry Collins [ESPN]
I think this is the first time I’ve seen having ‘no sense of urgency’ seen as a good thing.
"There’s a lot, a lot of baseball left. There’s no sense of urgency here. We have things we have to continue to try to do. We have to watch the workload of some guys, we have to continue to get healthy." -Terry Collins [New York Daily News]
Apparently Terry Collins is unaware of the internet.
"There’s no panic here, believe me. not in the clubhouse, not any place else." -Terry Collins [New York Daily News]
You made Bartolo cry. Then I cried. Then Maggie laughed, she’s such a little trooper.
"I was really happy I was pitching that way [without walking batter.] At the same time I am really sad and disappointed that we took the loss tonight." -Bartolo Colon [New York Daily News]
HOW IS THIS NOT A DUDA QUOTE.
"In the summer I played baseball just to get away and hang out with my friends. And I loved the game, so I always wanted to play professional baseball. But I was helping my dad out -- me and my brothers -- on the ranch, trying to get all that stuff done to put food on the table. We run a cow-calf operation. We'll breed the cows, raise the calves up and eventually we take them into the sale and butcher them off or whatever we do. We end up selling them. We also run a hunting and fishing business out there. So we get clients coming in there year-round for certain seasons. Me and my brothers guide them. In the fall, that's the busiest time. When I get back, after the season, I help my dad out a lot with that." -Darrell Ceciliani [ESPN]
We have Matz and then ‘what’s his name’ and, you know, that guy some people used to like.
"It's pretty remarkable. We've got some good guys left [in the Minors from the 2009 Draft Class.] We've got Steven Matz and [John] Church and [Darin] Gorski -- guys like that. I know it's thinned out quite a bit from 2009, but there are still some guys, and I'm sure still some guys to come. They actually said something to me last night, being the first guy from 2009. I never really put much thought into it. Hopefully there's more guys to come." -Darrell Ceciliani [ESPN]
That’s some solid scouting.
"[Nieuwenhuis’] rigid and stiff looking at the plate. It looks like pitchers have found a hole in his swing up in the zone. Also I notice that pitchers effectively change eye levels on him -- meaning they go hard up in the zone and then get breaking-ball chases in the dirt with two strikes." -NL Scout [ESPN]
Here’s some minor leaguers being adorable.
"[Brian Anderson’s] my best friend from high school. We graduated together from the same high school. He went on to play three years at the University of Arkansas and ended up getting drafted and went to the Marlins last year. It so happened that I made one start with St. Lucie and he was batting in the three-hole. The first inning, the first two guys got on base with infield singles, and he comes up. I get behind him 2-0 and I just kind of threw a little sinker and he pushes the ball out to right. I talked to him after the game. We walked down the line to the clubhouses there in Jupiter. I put my arm around him and go, ‘Hey, you know what? That’s your best-man gift right there. There’s no more coming after that.’" -Michael Fulmer [ESPN]
Pretty sure meant to specify the balls being hit to center field because literally no other person on the field would warrant that.
"I would compare [Juan Lagares] to Andy Van Slyke. Andy got great jumps on balls, and he had a great throwing arm. In Pittsburgh, Barry Bonds covered straight left field to the line, and Bobby Bonilla covered straight right field to the line, and the rest was Andy's. That's kind of what we do here. When balls are hit, our pitchers just walk off the mound, because they know it's gonna get caught." -Terry Collins [ESPN]
SiteBot FacePalm of the Week
"This team is just as awful as recent years. Even if they get DW and TdA back, one of whose body is breaking down and the other who has to come back from a hand injury, this team will be marginally better. Maybe." -NYche21
AA Quote of the Week
"We don't need more second basemen" -Dan Lewis
"When you say that, I hear it in the same rhythm as Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall Part II. ‘We don’t NEED more second BASEmen. We don’t need no thought control…’" -therotund1b
"Hey, Friedman! Leave our kids alone!" -Dan Lewis