Jim Hendry

Jim Hendry
Jim Hendryis currently a special assistant for New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman, and is a former Vice President/General Manager of the Chicago Cubs. Hendry was promoted to GM on July 5, 2002 by former Cubs President/CEO Andy MacPhail. He worked for the Cubs from 1995 to 2011. Prior to his promotion to GM, he was named Assistant GM/Player Personnel Director on October 12, 2001, and previously the Director of Player Development, in charge of both Scouting and Minor League...
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None of us, including Dr. Kremchek, are anticipating anything significant, but it is a shoulder.
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When things don't go as well as we all planned, there's enough fingers to be pointed everywhere, but it's certainly not coming from (management),
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Baseball has changed in that more business than ever is done in January and February. It didn't used to be that way.
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I have a lot of fondness in my heart for Corey. I feel badly at what happened last year. I certainly will try to do what's best for the Cubs first and what's best for Corey second.
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If Cedeno and Murton are playing, that's a positive, and I think our fan base would appreciate that.
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When you have a guy that plays 162 games every year, it makes that guy two stools down think twice about taking a day off.
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The player made it real clear he wants to be here and he wants to be here long term.
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There didn't seem to be enough business to go around.
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We knew neither one of them would be ready for opening day. Mark has been throwing again and has had no discomfort. Woody has been very, very good.
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We knew neither one of them would be ready for opening day.
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Too much pitching would be a good problem to have.
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We had a healthy Nomar, who was going to hit third. We thought Corey was going to take a step up, instead of a step back,
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When Larry came here, he turned down bigger and better deals financially,
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We had a bad year and I should've done a better job myself.