Reliever Quotes

[The Red Sox had a reliever (Wakefield) who pitched 3 1/3 innings and gave up five runs and may be due a raise.] When we win [Sunday], ... we'll have Wake to thank for that. - Terry Francona

[The middle relievers] have thrown so well in the late innings this season that I haven't had to throw nearly as many innings as I did last year. - Brad Lidge

[Reliever Josh Fogg , the Pirates' representative with the MLB Players Association, applauded the union's offer yesterday to increase the penalty to first-time steroids policy offenders from 10 days to 20 games:] Everybody in baseball wants to clean it up. ... With Palmeiro, from what we've seen on TV, it doesn't look like it's working out very well for him. I think there are pretty much a lot of guys who have been scared off. - Rafael Palmeiro

[Indians reliever Arthur Rhodes has left the club because of a family illness and will miss the rest of Cleveland's season, a blow to baseball's best bullpen and the club's playoff chances.] It's going to be tough without him, ... He has been huge for us all year. We're definitely going to miss him. - Bob Wickman

[All of the relievers] want to pitch with the game on the line and, to me, the game was on the line right there. It didn't work, but it'll work out way more than it doesn't. Because [Timlin is] good. - Terry Francona