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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He gives us another piece as we try to construct our team. He's hit .300 as a pinch hitter in the past.
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With the core group of leaders we have on this team, it has an uplifting effect on all of the rest of the roster. The environment, which they and Bobby and the coaches create, also has an uplifting impact. People rise with the tide of professional expectations. It's happened here for 15 straight years.
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We saw it happening and we made an effort to mine this talent we had in the area,
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Throughout this remarkable 15-year run of ours in which the Braves have had so much success, I'm asked one question and one question only, ... And that is, 'How have you guys done it? How have the Braves been able to continue to win and put a championship organization and team on the field year after year after year?'
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We say that every year and we prove it every year when we bring guys up from our Minor League system and they help us win. This year, we sort of did it with capital letters and neon lights and flood lights on the letters because we had so many of them here. That's a direct tribute to scouting and player development.
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We feel that Bobby is the best manager in the game and his leadership has helped the Braves to set a very high standard of excellence -- not just in major league baseball, but in all of professional sports.
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Bobby is going to have to decide on his lineup to decide who's the leadoff hitter and decide who the closer is going to be, so we have some spots on this roster and on this team that are going to be big decisions. But we have plenty of time and feel we will be able to get it done in spring training.
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Everybody wanted to run me out of town. But Nick was going to be a utility infielder, and we needed pitching arms. We got a good one.
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You can't contend for a division title without a shortstop. We got a guy who has been an All-Star, has three years left on his contract and Boston will pay about 50 percent of it. That's why we traded Andy.
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What was your word? Bland? ... You might say bland. From his viewpoint, it's effective. It's proper. It's the way a good leader protects his men.
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We didn't know. But we had the attitude like we always do that we're going to be competitive and we're going to do whatever we have to do to make things work. We had that confidence.
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We couldn't have done it without the work that they do. It's true every year. This year it was true to a much larger extent, to a far greater degree.
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We've had some very good discussions, and some good secondary discussions. I've told our guys, something good will come out of these meetings.
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We all have concerns; everybody does. We're going to do all that we can to be as smart as we can to get our guys in the best possible condition, principally pitchers, so they're less likely to have an injury problem that would set them back and set us back.