It was kind of a split camp. And most of the recent conversations were limited almost exclusively to using it for fair or foul calls. It wasn't with the thought of creating a mechanism for managers to challenge calls like in football.
It's been discussed at the general managers' meetings the last couple years,
It's something we'll have to address at some point,
Kiss my [bleeping bleep], Sam.
That?s usually how it goes (at this time of year). I think a lot of deadlines have passed us by.
The expectation is that you need to make the playoffs, and we didn't live up to those expectations. I've seen it happen in other places. There's never a good time for something like this, but that's not my decision to make.
The price was high, but to be able to get a proven bullpen arm who has pitched at a championship level, it was too good to pass up.
The price was very high, ... But to get a prime bullpen arm, you have to give up something.
There were a lot of things out there that made me fairly certain that there would be rough spots. Still, to me, I thought some of the stuff was absolutely bizarre.
There's always an attraction for the marquee player. That's not going to change. A guy with the quality of Burnett — there probably isn't a bad year to be A.J. Burnett.
There's no question that's ultimately how you're judged, by how you do in the season and how you do in the playoffs. By that measure, we didn't get there.
Way to go, boys!
We believe Brett has a very bright future in the major leagues. We wanted to give him time to develop in AAA. We feel the opportunity is now and that he's prepared for it.
We didn't encourage clubs to get overly aggressive, because we knew what he meant to our club in the midst of a pennant race. Ryan's an extremely talented player and is going to be an outstanding every day player in the big leagues. Despite the fact that a lot of people thought we should have been more aggressive in sending him away, we're happy we didn't.
We knew what he was capable of doing at the big league level. He's still a developing player, and I feel in my heart that he benefitted from getting four at-bats a day in Scranton vs. being on the bench here at the beginning of the season.
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