Bruce Levine

He's really grown into the position of not second-guessing himself, not over-analyzing situations, just going out there and pitching.

Came into camp extraordinarily strong mentally.

Build himself up in the upper body in the preseason during the winter.

So I think he's ready to go.

And he's, when right, you know, we've seen it.

I mean, we've seen him dominate lineups.

Just the inconsistency, which has kept him back.

It could mean 150 games and maybe the 34 home runs is right where it was last year.

I don't know if anybody would complain about 34 home runs again from Michael Bush or with those extra additive bats against lefties will be a number that goes higher.

I think that everybody would be happy with

35 homers and 90 to 100 RBIs, just like he had last year.

We always look at players' good years, especially younger players.

And I think Michael is 27 or 28 now.

And we say, well, he did it last year, so he should be getting better.

That was a pretty damn good year, right?

So I think they'll take that again.

Well, Marshall, like you say, he might be the exception to the rule.

I know you are a huge proponent of his, and so am I. And anybody that watches him, and I'm talking about scouts from other teams and front office people that I talk to, none of them have anything but

desire to get them by Asteros in their organization.

They just think he's, you know, he just turned 22.