Steve Stone

There's no illusions.

You are the best team in that division.

Now, a short series, anything can happen, and we've seen that.

But it's the next man up, and it's not who's gone.

It's not who you can't use.

It's who you are using.

And this team has pulled together and fought their way through a lot of tough situations.

They lead the major leagues in comeback victories, which will show you some of their resilience.

But, sure, they miss Monet.

There's no doubt about that.

But, you know, baseball is a game where you just have to play through the injuries.

You hope it's not to your better players.

But in this case, it was to a guy that was standing on the verge of a historic season for a rookie.

I think one of the best things about this ball club is that they were all pretty young.

Even the veterans are young veterans, but mostly it's made up of young players.

And so when Will and his staff decided to really emphasize a new type of culture in the spring,

He was able to mold all of these guys, and he even admitted yesterday that it hasn't surprised him that they've done well.

It's just surprised him, and pleasantly so, that they pulled together as a group, genuinely rooting for one another, and it seems that everybody's on the same page every day.

There's not any of those petty jealousies that you see amongst most teams.

There's no backbiting and infighting.