The conference is so balanced and so wide open this year that it doesn't matter who we play; whether they're last place or first place, we gotta win them all.

He threw great today. He was a big pitcher for us last year, and we expect the same from him this year.

The two-spot has really been a tough thing for us to settle on this season. We decided to put one of our best hitters in there and see what happens.

Conference play is a totally different level of intensity. The stakes are higher. It's hard to put into words how big it truly is.

It's the same core of guys as last year. It's a pretty veteran group. We're hoping to build off last year's experience.

Zach Groh has been so dominant this spring. He's continued to recover and it's great to have him back out there.

Of course you want to win every series at home that you can, but as the weekend goes on you adjust your goals. After you lose the first one you wanna win the next three, after you lose the second one the goals change again and the goal was to split the series. That's a really good ball club right there and for us to have some success against them is a good sign of what we can be.

We just try to get better every time we take the field. We try to fix the mistakes and just keep doing what we're doing right, so that we're as ready as we can be moving into conference play next week.

This streak is borderline silly right now. It's not supposed to be like that in this era of bigger players and aluminum bats.

I think we have a more balanced attack than anything else. There will be days when we need to out slug someone, and there will be days we'll do with our pitching. The team is just so balanced.