Travis Sawchik of the Pittsburgh Tribune Review sat down with Ivan Nova on the topic. According to Sawchik, Nova told him that:
Let us start with the first half of that tweet. He does not want to leave this club house. That goes along with the constant cliche` of a player willing to take less to stay where he is comfortable. We here this term thrown around every time a player is close to free agency. We are already hearing this used about National’s free agent Mark Melancon. Many think the Pittsburgh Pirates have a chance to resign Melancon because he “loved it” here.