QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Feb 18, 2006 -> 09:32 PM)
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Left is all right? Despite the desire to carry an extra man in the bullpen, Cooper said Saturday there's no guarantee one of the two remaining relief spots will be filled by a left-hander to join Neal Cotts. With eight lefties battling, though, Cooper would like to think that at least one will step up and earn a job.
"You would like to think there will be a couple of three or four who will jump up and say, 'You really have to give me a look. I'm throwing the ball well and getting guys out,'" Cooper said. "But we aren't going to pin ourselves in a corner, saying we must take a lefty.
"We are going to be taking the 11 or 12 or whatever number we are set on, the 12 best who can get people out. We won't take a lefty for the sake of having a lefty if he's not showing us anything."
Cooper envisions the second lefty as more of a situational to one inning sort of reliever, who could appear in 60 to 70 games.
Left is all right? Despite the desire to carry an extra man in the bullpen, Cooper said Saturday there's no guarantee one of the two remaining relief spots will be filled by a left-hander to join Neal Cotts. With eight lefties battling, though, Cooper would like to think that at least one will step up and earn a job.
"You would like to think there will be a couple of three or four who will jump up and say, 'You really have to give me a look. I'm throwing the ball well and getting guys out,'" Cooper said. "But we aren't going to pin ourselves in a corner, saying we must take a lefty.
"We are going to be taking the 11 or 12 or whatever number we are set on, the 12 best who can get people out. We won't take a lefty for the sake of having a lefty if he's not showing us anything."
Cooper envisions the second lefty as more of a situational to one inning sort of reliever, who could appear in 60 to 70 games.
You can say that again.