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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If you assume the worst, you have to also assume with modern medical technology he'll be fixed and may very well be ready for the next several years.
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He's too good a catching prospect to do that now. We like him where he is. He's getting better and better behind the plate.
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He really answered the call. The job was up for grabs, with a lot of competition, and he just rose up and took it.
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He's an accomplished, veteran hitter who has had big hits through the years as a pinch-hitter, including some in the postseason. That's something we had targeted.
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I appreciate intellect and intellectual capacity as much as anybody. But I also know if you have a combination of a lively intellect and levels of experience, you're going to be better suited to make decisions, whether you're head of scouting, player development or a general manager.
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It's hurtful to know that Tommy Glavine won't be in a Braves uniform anymore.
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Winners make commitments, losers make excuses.
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Our issue isn't when we get something done, ... it's how appropriate it is when we do it.
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Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things
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George Brett could roll out of bed on Christmas morning and hit a line drive.
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I knew that, in time, they and everyone else on the team was gonna see what we had put together.
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The greatest analogy of what we did was we altered our roster in midstream, which was like changing the tires on a bus going 60 miles an hour down.
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The key is if a person can compete at this level and also has the kind of makeup and professionalism that Mike has, you're going to be better off as a team. But the most important aspect is that they have to help you win games.
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I made the decisions that had to be made, ... I never really thought: 'Wow, what are we doing? This is bizarre. Have we lost our collective organizational minds? What's going on?' I never really thought that. I thought each of these kids could answer the call and do what was needed of them and could pinch in. They have. All of them were direct responses to specific needs that we had at the time. I think they all made sense to us when we did them. I don't know that there was any unorthodox one. Maybe Joey Devine, because there hasn't been anyone drafted in our organization who has been on the playoff roster that same year.