We don't always talk baseball. I want to know everything about these guys. I feel that if I know them, I can be a better coach.
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Everybody seems to be progressing right where they need to be. It's been a tremendous help, because I've been able to get advance knowledge of knowing personalities and how to gauge their needs. This just gives us a head start so that it doesn't have to happen in Spring Training.Roger McDowell
My job is to get pitchers better. Walking into the Atlanta Braves organization, you know the history and the success the staffs have had here. It's a task I'm looking forward to the challenge of.
Roger McDowell
He's just struggling to make some pitches on a consistent basis. I obviously don't foresee that continuing, based on the track record he's had. This is just one of those occasions ... unfortunately that it happens back-to-back and this early in the season.
Roger McDowell
Obviously you'd like to have everybody throwing up zeroes all the time. But that can't happen. Pitchers can go into slumps just like hitters. For whatever reason, sometimes they do it collectively.
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I don't feel I have warranted anything to be called Camp Roger. It's been called Camp Leo, and rightfully so.
Roger McDowell
I wouldn't take back anything that I have done because it's who I am. I like to make people laugh. But I'm not a player anymore. I'm a coach, and it's a different job. I want to do my job, and that's to get 11 or 12 pitchers ready to pitch a game.
Roger McDowell
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