"We've had numerous conversations about team location, market size, team success - things like that. He doesn't seem to look at it in the typical way that other players do. He has a more long-term, global view of things. I believe Roki is also very interested in the pitching development and how a team is going to help him get better both in the near future and over the course of his career."
"Roki is by no means a finished product. He knows it and the teams know it. He is incredibly talented. We all know that. But he is a guy that wants to be great. He's not coming here to be rich or to get a huge contract. He wants to be great. He wants to be one of the greatest ever. I see that now and he has articulated it."
"To be that he knows he has to challenge himself. ... I'm not speaking for Roki. I'm speaking my own opinion that in order to take it to another level he (realized he) had to come here and play against the best players every day and tap into all the resources that major league teams have to help him become one of the best pitchers not just to come out of NPB but in Major League Baseball. That's what he wants. That's why he came."
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