Brian Sabean
Brian Sabean
Brian R. Sabean, as of 2015, is the executive vice president of baseball operations of the San Francisco Giants. He served as the team's general manager for eighteen seasons, from 1997 to 2014. He succeeded general manager Bob Quinn. The Giants had a winning record in thirteen of the eighteen seasons in which Sabean served as general manager. Prior to his tenure, the team had suffered losing seasons in five out of six years. He is a native of Concord,...
days four type
He's a veteran. It's a Rickey Henderson type of thing. If he's here in four days, he'll be four days early.
baby knowing ready
Knowing him, he's going to want to go out there when he's ready to go. He's not going to want to go out and take baby steps, like pinch-hitting.
reasonable somebody success winning
I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.
anywhere everybody past retire wants
He has never made an overture he wants to be anywhere but here. He's told everybody in the past he wants to retire as a Giant.
pitchers quality
He has had some quality at-bats, and pitchers have pitched him really tough.
above certainly impressive
Very above average. He's certainly very impressive in person.
both building definitely faith full guarantee handled release standing steps taking until
Until both those folks, even with him doing this activity, release him to us, it's in their hands. I have full faith in how they've handled it and where this thing's going under their guidance, ... Yeah, I'm hopeful, but I can't guarantee anything. This is definitely a day-to-day situation. Again, building on what they're asking, he's not standing still and he's not taking steps back.
care surprised tremendous
wouldn't be surprised at anything. But he's had a tremendous layoff. I don't care who you are, he's been out a long time.
baseball difficult
He's probably done as much as he can down here. Now, he'll be in a baseball domain. I'd like to see him in a simulated game, but that's probably difficult to do. And there's a lot going on you can't simulate.
blue dodger hated ruin twist
Hopefully, it won't ruin a friendship. Obviously, he's in hated Dodger Blue now. It is an interesting twist of fate.
close dinners dodger flip guys hard hated levity pasta ruin sure worked
Hopefully, it won't ruin a friendship. Obviously, he's in hated Dodger blue. I'm sure he'll be having a lot of pasta dinners with Tommy (Lasorda). Levity aside, it is an interesting flip of fate. You guys know how close we are personally, how hard we worked professionally.
dominant eye force guy
He's the prototype. He has been and will be a dominant force at the end of the game. ... He's a guy we had our eye on.
blame choice obviously starts turn
I'm embarrassed we had to do it, ... The blame starts with me. We made choices, and they obviously didn't turn out.
guys trying
I'm trying to make these guys incrementally better.