37 ordspråk av Kevin McClatchy
Kevin McClatchy
I think what we need is somebody with Major League managing experience. This is just my opinion and Dave might think differently. And like I've said, it's his choice. But we've gone down the road last time with somebody who didn't have Major League managing experience.
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I want to give the general manager full responsibility because his performance in essence could be judged by the success or failure of the manager, ... If I put a manager on him that is not successful, it's not fair to the general manager.
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I'm disappointed in some of these players' lack of improvement. I'm not going to name names, but you can probably figure out which players haven't improved. And I think we're going to watch that as we go forward.
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I'm not going to lie to you. There were some times -- and I think everybody knows when that was because we had to move some players -- that I don't think our plan was working. We were locked into bad contracts and ... it was time for significant changes. Things are working much better now because I think we're working our plan better. Quite frankly, we've got better people in place to execute the plan, too.
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I've put a lot of focus on 2006. I think we have to improve next year. I think we are going to put ourselves in the best position that we have been in a long time.
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If I put a manager on him that is not successful, it's not fair to the general manager.
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It was important to give Dave the tools he needed to go out and get these players. He's done a great job of getting some veteran players to go with our younger core.
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Mac really didn't have major-league managerial experience, and we probably wouldn't want to go that route again,
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Not one bit. That St. Louis thing played absolutely not one shred of a role in this.
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Sure, if he's available, ... If he's not, then that's the way it is.
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That's one of the reasons you do these things, because you're trying to get ahead of that. We felt good about this deal. Jack's a good player and a good character guy.
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That's water under the bridge. Jim and I are well past anything like that. When it comes to a decision like this, you're going to pick the best person, period.
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There are certain players who I think haven't progressed, and we need those players to grow. Put on top of that that we have a slew of young players coming into this thing, and I think Dave just wanted to make the decision to get the best person we can to help these guys continue to develop and evolve. Some can make the argument we didn't do that this year.
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There was concern there. I'm disappointed in some of the lack of improvement. Dave wanted to make sure we had the right manager in place so these players could continue to improve.
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We are beginning to see the results of those efforts, as we see more homegrown talent at the major-league level.
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