John Schuerholz
John Schuerholz
John Schuerholzis the president of the Atlanta Braves of the National League. Before joining Atlanta, he spent twenty-two years with the Kansas City Royals organization, including nineas the club's general manager. Among the teams he has built are the 1985 Royals and 1995 Braves, both World Series champions. His teams have also won their division 15 times. He was the general manager with the Atlanta Braves from 1990 to 2007. In 2007 he was promoted to the post of club...
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I'd be very remiss if I didn't offer Leo the best of luck and offer compliments for the great work he's done while he's been here,
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Built to Win. After a lot of soul-searching, Tommy decided he was going to stay. Quite obviously, he was relieved. His wife was relieved. And I was bouncing their son on my knee.
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Baseball has this ability to get bent by all this, but not broken. It always bounces back. It's very resilient.
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Nobody had any expectations except that he could be on our pitching staff and help us win. And that's what I go on.
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So, in midseason, going full-speed ahead, we had to change our plan and reconstruct our team,
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I have spoken with (Braves senior orthopedic consultant) Dr. Chandler and we will follow Dr. Anderson's recommendation on a conservative treatment at this time. Chipper will be re-evaluated in four to six weeks, at which time we will assess his healing process.
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I hate to lose him for one day. But the way that injury looked when it occurred, to have this result from the examination is very positive.
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I hate to lose him for even one day. But when you look at what occurred and to have this result, it's very positive.
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I feel much better about our bullpen right now.
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I can't say we have more passion than anyone else, ... I can't say we have more intuititiveness. I can't say we have more creativity or more imagination, or we work harder. Our own internal expectation is to do those things better than everybody else we're competing against. I'm sure everybody else says the same thing, but our guys have found a way to do it.
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There are two components. It's a process that keeps our organization filled with talented players because we have excellent people involved in scouting and the minor league system. The second part is Bobby Cox and his coaching staff, who take this talent wherever it comes from and blends it as effectively as any staff in the major leagues can do.
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