"It's hard to explain," he said. "I think we're just getting everybody in the right frame of mind as far as how we're going to attack hitters. My first year of watching this, that wasn't even baseball. And the front office has done a great job of getting guys that throw strikes. Now we just teach them how to pitch."

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"I asked Mac, 'As a manager, am I monitoring the health of our arms good enough up to this point?'" Hillman said. "And that's a question I'm going to be asking him a lot, because the one thing that I have not done is manage this length of a season -- the 162-game season in six months I have not done."