We've been discussing them for the last couple weeks. We felt good about it and we were confident we'd get them done before we had to file numbers.

Two more done, three more to go. We're making good progress.

Jay brought an element we haven't had in the bullpen here for a while. We started right after the season talking to him about coming back. The fact he was honest about coming back allowed us to get it done so quickly.

Jay is a professional. He fit in great with the clubhouse.

We felt like he needed to get everyday at-bats to break out of his slump, and that's clearly not going to happen in the big leagues.

We want to make sure he's healthy. It's rare to sign a guy you've just brought in to a multi-year deal.

We had a very good meeting with Bob. Obviously, there's a lot of familiarity there and it was good to meet in that setting.

He has exceeded any expectations you would have for someone less than a year out of the draft. Certainly, we probably expected a little more out of him because of the person he is and because of his background, and we all went into spring training hoping he would be ready to contribute at some point this year, but never expecting he'd be closing games in June.

We still feel he has the potential to be productive as a big-league player. He didn't have a great offensive-type start to the year. After that long 0-for start, he put a lot of pressure on himself. It wasn't fair to Charles to expect him to find the magic and turn it around without playing on a more regular basis.