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...
alex few good high player rodriguez saw wants
Very few times do you see a player who you can say he can be as good as he wants to be. Literally. I saw Alex Rodriguez in high school, and you could say it about him. That's what I think about Carlos.
elsewhere players reality
The reality is most of our players should be in Double-A or elsewhere in the minors,
aim build drafted except far general good job players year
You don't aim for it, but you can build an organization that way. I think we've done a good job as far as the players we've drafted except for the first year that I was here as general manager,
ability advanced college dictate fast player
We let the ability of the player dictate how fast he comes along. He's an advanced college hitter, and that makes a difference.
anticipate move obviously player quickly skilled
He is obviously a skilled player that we anticipate will move quickly through our system.
adds confident depth drafts finally gives player point system
I feel confident about all our other drafts and this gives us a chance, obviously, to get an outstanding player two years in a row. And that adds depth to your system and we're finally at a point where we do have some depth.
andre came hitting number philosophy players veteran worked
Andre understands our organizational hitting philosophy. He has worked with a number of our young players, as well as some veteran players that came up through the organization.
beyond clubhouse goes value
What he's done in the clubhouse and with the young players, I can't say enough about him. His value to the ballclub goes well beyond his numbers.
gauge stay
We're better. If you want to gauge it, you gauge it at the end of the season. As long as we stay healthy, we're a better club.
added continue depth good improved increased innings left team
We've added two innings starters, we've added some team speed, we've improved our defense, we've increased our depth in the bullpen. So I feel good about that. But we still have some things left to do. We'll continue to be aggressive.
looking projection start turning
We're still in a developmental stage, but we said we need to see some results. We want to start turning projection into production. We're looking for more results.
rather respect
Out of respect to him, I'd rather have him do that.
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.
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.