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 think there have been dramatic changes. We lost our leadoff hitter and shortstop and lost the guy who was our closer and anticipated to be our closer. We lost our pitching coach. Those are dramatic changes that our organization has to deal with.
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He's a baseball player. Offense, defense, aggressiveness - he's got a lot of those qualities you look for. And he's absolutely a rock-solid person. We have our fair share of those.
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He's a good young player and he's going to have a fine career. He'll develop like all of our young guys have developed -- at his natural pace. It will happen when it happens.
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He's a consummate professional and a man of very high character. When you have a man around like that, that's going to do nothing but help everybody else who is around him. He's had a very positive impact on the Braves' organization and this team.
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We are aware that there was an incident, ... We will do everything in our power to insure that similar incidents do not occur in the future.
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We hope that this is a win-win situation for both sides. We hope that Mike's career can get back on track and he can regain the level of pitching he enjoyed for so many years before shoulder problems got the better of him.
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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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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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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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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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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