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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The best third-base prospect in baseball. He has awesome potential, excellent power and a good glove.
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the best five starting pitchers we've ever had.
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It's going to be real exciting seeing all of the guys compete. It will certainly be a spot of great interest for all of us.
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It's just enjoyable to watch guys throw. It was a beautiful day, and everything went smoothly. There was nothing out of the ordinary, so it was a good day.
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It's a special story. You look at the hometown guys like Kyle Davies, Jeff Francoeur, Blaine Boyer and Brian McCann, and to see the role they're playing on the team right now, there couldn't be a better story in baseball.
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It wasn't shocking. It wasn't unexpected. It's a disappointing development. He was a real big part of our pitching staff and pitched sensationally the first part of the season.
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It's been exciting, fun, energizing. These kids are walking the walk for us right now.
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This winter we have set our sights on going back to sort of the old-fashioned Braves way of building championship teams with dominant pitching. That's what we think we have done and we are excited about the pitching staff we have put together for the season.
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You don't like to see that happen to any young player. But of all the people that we could have had to endure that, he would have been the best.
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What they hear from him is constant support, constant affirmation, constant compliments, because that's his style. He's a positive guy. Even in the midst of difficulties, he's a positive guy.
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When we drafted Jeff Francoeur, (scouting director) Roy Clark said, 'This guy's going to be a star,'
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We felt it was important to strengthen our bullpen with some talented, more established arms. And we were able do that with Cruz and Reitsma.
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We're not announcing it, because we don't know who it is going to be. Bobby has done this many times in the past when we've had openings at various positions. We'll let them compete for it, and whoever impresses the most will get the opportunity to be our closer.
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Tommy went through a purgatory of second thoughts, To me that was a private business discussion and should have stayed that way.