Quotes by Mickey Brantley

“He wants to use the whole field. His strengths are right-center, but I have no problem with him doing that -- thats good. He needs to learn to pull the ball correctly. Hes been working on that and hes gotten a lot better. Obviously, when you go from one to 10, it looks like he has the power going in the right direction.”

“Hes a young kid, so no question about it he has to play. Development is development.”

“You dont hear much wood do you?”

“Hes a team player. When hes not doing the job, he wants to do whats best for the club. In good situations sometimes you want to be the hero, you (can) expand the zone. He stays within his own zone and thats a good thing.”

“Its very difficult to make changes at the Major League level, because these guys want to be successful. Theyve been doing this for quite a while with other instructors. So Im coming in with small adjustments, not major adjustments.”

“The veteran player ... he knows his role, he knows where he is. Its the young kids that are kind of afraid to make those adjustments because, Hey, Im here. Ive only been here one or two years. I dont want to lose my job. ... Thats the concern.”

“The more we do something, the better we become at it.”

“He needs to learn to pull the ball correctly. Hes been working on that and hes gotten a lot better. Obviously, when you go from one to 10 [homers], it looks like he has the power going in the right direction.”

“Right now, everybodys kind of locked in a little bit. They have a little routine that theyre doing every day. If I have to say something Ive just got to tell them, Youre out in front, or Youre behind, just little stuff. Right now those guys are in good position.”

“We have an approach. Were not expanding the strike zone. Were looking for our pitch in our zone. Were putting the ball in play and hitting it hard. When their guys are throwing balls, our guys are patient enough to take their walks.”