One of your top pitching prospects steps in for your injured aces and pitches a 5-hit shutout. How do you encourage the youngster?
Baker laughed off a suggestion that Mitre could replace either one of Chicago's injured aces, Kerry Wood or Mark Prior.
"The horses are the horses,'' Baker said. "He's not a horse yet, he's a little pony trying to be a horse. He'll be a horse someday.''
Real nice. Why don't you just pick up an axe and have at his knees?
