1.   And they established last week in a second appearance against Colon that they have the patience to work a quality pitcher until a single hair springs out of place.

2.   Alex not only is a quality pitcher but a local one as well.

3.   En route, they lost a couple of quality pitchers.

4.   Given the free-swinging nature of the offense, it is prone to periodic shutdown by a quality pitcher.

5.   He is holding out for at least one quality starting pitcher in return.

6.   He wanted quality pitchers who could eat up innings by pitching into the seventh, eighth and ninth innings, thereby taking pressure off a shaky bullpen.

7.   Hopefully, team management will be visionary enough to locate another quality pitcher for the starting rotation before we hear those words again.

8.   I think Atlanta is more vulnerable to the real quality left-handed pitchers than St. Louis is.

9.   In this series with Baltimore the Angels already have faced Scott Erickson and Mike Mussina, two quality pitchers even though the Orioles are out of the race.

10.   Once he can get through some ups and get through some downs, he will be a quality big league pitcher.