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«I'm just not comfortable with him not getting at-bats right now. If you don't play him, you're not going to see his power. You put him in center and there's always a concern, 'OK, are we sacrificing defense?' Well, I don't know. But I'm going to get him out there in center field a little bit. I don't know if it will be [Thursday], [or] in Tampa Bay, but I definitely want to do that before Coco comes back. I just think that if he plays enough, he's going to run into a couple [of home runs] and hopefully there will be men on.»

«I think he's done a good job. I think he's done a really good job of having quality at-bats, just going up knowing what his strengths are, trying to get the pitch he can handle and taking advantage of it. He swings at strikes for the very most part. He's a really good third baseman. He's a real pro.»

«It's not fun to sit through. I know it's not fun for Bard. But he's working as hard as he can. I don't want him to beat himself up.»

«Unfortunately for us, it seemed like (the passed balls) came at inopportune times. The first couple of innings, (Bard) really handled him pretty well. Then we ran into a bump in the road, and it seems like when that happens, he starts fighting himself a little bit and it gets tougher for him.»

«We believe that this is going to work. It?s not always easy, and I don?t know we ever thought it was going to be. I don?t want the kid to beat himself up, because he?s doing that. He?s very conscientious.»

«We have not scored when he is throwing. That will change. Wake's done this for a long time and he's been through a lot. The good thing for me is he's throwing the ball well. He has to stay plugging away, which he will, and he'll get rewarded for it.»

«He took a good swing tonight and he has that ability.»

«I remember talking to Dougie when he first started. They said he got beat up pretty good. I talked to Charlie Hough. They make jokes about him. They go, 'Pick it up when it stops rolling,' and everything. There's a reason they say that because it's hard to hit and it's hard to catch. We're living through that right now.»

«I don't see how it would help him, to run from him. I don't think that's the way to go about it.»

«Unfortunately for us tonight it seemed like they kind of came at inopportune times.»