Our team starts with Billy. When you're building a pitching staff, you start with a closer and work forward. He's definitely one of the top two or three closers in baseball. I'm definitely going to keep up with his negotiating and everything. I'll do whatever I can to help sign him.
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I was thinking about getting thrown out of the game, if you want to know the truth.
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I never promise guys anything. But I'll give you every chance in the world to show me what you can do. In my mind, I definitely am going to look at him a long time.
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We had a guy who was pitching good for us and he just didn't do it. He fell back into slowing the game down and lost command. He was taking quite a while to throw the ball, and I think it did him in.
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