When you start worrying about who you're going to play, it could bite you. Because it really shouldn't matter.

Don't ever permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. That's on the top of my lineup card every night.

I like to have fun. I have never done anything well in my entire life that I didn't enjoy.

Javy [Baez] grew up in Puerto Rico, played a lot of baseball as a youth, played a lot of winter ball. He's been taught properly and well.

Obviously Javy [Baez] is able to control his emotions, he plays it as it should be, it's a game. That's how he plays it.

I want the players to play that way, so I'd better manage that way. The philosophy has been thrown out there. We've been talking about it. We've been working on it, so let's see how it works. Let's see if theory and reality can come together.

Our prep's not going to be any different. It will be optional batting practice like there was today. I don't want any more work. I don't want extra study.