“I think it's certainly a show of how much we appreciate what Phil has done and what we expect him to do in the future. We want to continue to build on what we have had here.”
“It's been this way for quite awhile, ... It gets more notice now because you've got more teams in the hunt. You hear a lot more about it with the wild card.”
“Without the Express players we have now, there's no way we'd be where we are now, ... To me, your Triple-A and Double-A teams are your research and development. They're they guys who hopefully sustain your organization.”
“He's a good man. He's helped a lot of our pitchers over the years. A guy like Charley is one of the reasons we've had such a productive pitching program.”
“It does cause some awkward times at the end of [August], ... We had to send out a couple of kids we liked at the end of the month on our pitching staff and we had to bring up some other guys the next day.”
