Allard Baird
Allard Baird
Allard Bairdis an American professional baseball executive and the former general manager of the Kansas City Royals. He now works for the Boston Red Sox as senior vice president, player personnel, serving under President of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski. He joined Boston in 2006 as an assistant to the general manager after his firing in Kansas City and later was named vice president and director of professional scouting...
concentration ethic few gone natural people skills strikes taking tribute wait work
I think, this year, his concentration skills have gone to another level. He's taking strikes. There are very few people who can take strikes and wait for the strike they really want. Carlos can. That's a tribute to his work ethic and natural ability,
anxious talked timetable
I talked to him the other day and he's doing well. He's progressing and he's kind of anxious to get back. We don't have a timetable yet.
ahead arm indicator knee next outing relationship strength terms
His next outing will be a big indicator where his knee is at in relationship to where his arm is. His arm is ahead of his knee right now in terms of strength and stamina.
spring start training
When he does get back, it will be like he has to start with spring training all over again.
anticipate move obviously player quickly skilled
He is obviously a skilled player that we anticipate will move quickly through our system.
aid handling pitching receiving skills
He has solid, above-average receiving skills and is above-average in handling a pitching staff. He'll be able to aid us in the development of Buck.
ball fly pitcher
He is a fly ball pitcher and I think it's going to help.
camp far goes joyce next swelling timetable until
He'll be reevaluated as far as the timetable when Dr. Joyce arrives in camp next week. I won't know until the doc comes in and the swelling goes down.
stuff
We think he has the stuff to be a starter.
ability acquired bases deep fourth knew perform power runs solid steal
Play solid defense, show the ability to steal bases and just perform well. Offensively, he's got some power and runs some deep counts. When we acquired him we knew he could be a solid fourth outfielder.
fall league puerto rican time
From there, we'd like to get him in the fall league and, if he does well and where he's at stamina-wise, we may even look at the Puerto Rican League just to make up for some of the time that he has not been on the field.
add spring weeks wish
I wish we had two more weeks to add on to Spring Training. If we had that, I think he'd be fine, but we don't have that.
people remember
He was really quiet, unassuming, to himself. A lot of people here still remember him as little Johnny.
spring training
He wanted to get an idea about American Spring Training and techniques.