Jim Duquette
Jim Duquette
James "Jim" Duquette was the general manager of the New York Mets for the 2004 season, before the team replaced him with Omar Minaya. Duquette subsequently stayed with the Mets in a front office job for a full season before moving on to the Baltimore Orioles. With the Orioles former vice president of baseball operations, where he worked under Mike Flanagan, the team's general manager...
direction leaving moving situation turned
Obviously, I'm leaving a situation that has turned around and is moving in the right direction,
agent coming desire everyday guy likes playing wants
The way it was relayed to us through his agent was that he's not a guy that likes coming off the bench. He's a guy who wants to play every day. He didn't have the desire to keep playing if it wasn't an everyday job.
coming good historic move positions reason step types view
First off, it's one of the historic franchises in baseball. These types of positions don't come around too often. I think it's a very good fit. I view it as a step up. If I thought it was a lateral move I wouldn't be coming down here. I feel I have more authority, more decision-making abilities with the Orioles than I do with the Mets. That's the reason I'm here.
coming good historic move positions reason step types view
First off, it's one of the historic franchises in baseball, ... These types of positions don't come around too often. I think it's a very good fit. I view it as a step up. If I thought it was a lateral move I wouldn't be coming down here. I feel I have more authority, more decision-making abilities with the Orioles than I do with the Mets. That's the reason I'm here.
chris closer guy maybe serious transition until
We dabbled with getting a guy who could maybe be a transition closer until Chris could take over, but we were never really all that serious because we really feel like he's our guy.
disrupt family good responsibility situation
I wasn't going to disrupt my family situation and a situation that I think was good here to take a lateral move, ... It has more authority, more responsibility, more decision-making responsibility than it does here.
blown feels played team terrible wants
Miguel said all he wanted was for the team to improve. He wants to win. He doesn't know how that got blown out of proportion, and he feels terrible the way it played out.
beginning dialogue guy hopeful number obviously since uniform
We've been having a dialogue since the beginning of January. We're hopeful it's going to get done. He's obviously a guy we'd like to keep in an Oriole uniform for a number of years.
decided talking
We haven't decided what we're going to do yet, ... We're still talking about it.
added business cliff develop ease guy guys mike player pressure york
What you don't want to do is put too much pressure on them, too much added expectations. They had enough expectations in New York. I don't know if you can ever ease a player into the New York scene. It's something that a guy like Carlos Beltran, Mike Piazza, Cliff Floyd, they can take the pressure off the two young guys so they can go about their business and develop at their own pace.
coming feeling minor normally player potential risk worthwhile
Obviously, he's coming off a down year, and normally you don't get a player who has his potential for two minor leaguers. In fact, you never do. Our feeling was it was a worthwhile risk for us to take.
good league major obviously player proven record situation sure talking track
Obviously we've been talking to him for a while, and thought we had a pretty good opportunity. I'm not sure about the other opportunities he was weighing vs. ours. He's a proven major league player that's had a track record and really it's a no-risk situation for the club.
conclude deal negotiate plan tender time
Because of time constraints we weren't able to conclude a deal with Scott Strickland to tender him a contract. We still plan to negotiate with him.
advice based guaranteed health offer willing
We weren't willing to make a guaranteed five-year offer, that was based on the advice of our doctors, ... Our offer was predicated on the health concern.