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...
acceptable anybody bad column coming focus heck rectify seat thinks urgency white win won
My focus is we won 79 games. That's a bad year. Anybody who sits in this seat and thinks that's acceptable, that's wrong. The urgency for me is to rectify coming off a bad year. If the White Sox hadn't won, we still have 79 in the win column and that's never going to be acceptable as long as I'm doing it, and we have to try like heck to get it fixed.
approach avenues behind cardinals certainly credit found gate maybe middle month ourselves winter
We've found ourselves significantly behind the Cardinals by the month of May or the middle of May. Credit them for how well they get out the gate. Certainly over the winter we'll look at avenues to try to get out of the gate better and maybe approach things differently.
above affect approaches bank character game goes price puts security winning
He won't be changed, the way he approaches the game and his teammates. He has too much character to let long-term security affect the way he goes about his business. He puts the price of winning above the price of his own bank account.
aspect business felt intent job pitching sake unfinished win
He felt that for his sake and for the pitching aspect of it, and the staff, he felt we're still going to win here and he's got some unfinished business to do with our guys. I think his intent is to get the job done here.
against discomfort last pitcher respect starts winning wins year
We've always had a lot of respect for him. He pitched so well against us for Houston. He went out there last year with some discomfort and gutted out his starts in Boston. He's a winning-type guy. He's a winning pitcher who, when he's out there, he wins you games.
both conclusion contract forward good hitting juan looking winter
We are looking forward to Juan hitting in the leadoff spot. This contract is a good conclusion to the winter for both Juan and us.
active deals gm grinding hopeful meetings pursuit rectify since until winter
We have made a lot more deals after the winter meetings since I have been GM than at the winter meetings. We are still hopeful to be active in the pursuit of an outfielder. We'll keep grinding it out until we rectify that.
baseball best deserved games happy last series team whether win won year
The Sox were the best team in baseball and they deserved to win -- I'm happy for them. But whether the Sox won the World Series or not, we won 79 games last year and that's not acceptable.
good guy human win
He's just as good or better a human being as he is a ballplayer. He's the kind of guy you want to keep and win with.
against games happy proud win
Congratulations, I'm proud of you and really happy for you . . . just don't win any games against us,
games guy plays taking twice
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.
clear player wants
The player made it real clear he wants to be here and he wants to be here long term.
again knew mark neither opening ready throwing woody
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.
knew neither opening ready
We knew neither one of them would be ready for opening day.