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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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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They've all been rewarding. Each division championship you win has its own measure of reward. But this year is the most rewarding because we had to (overhaul) our roster in midstream.
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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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I think it's obvious. If he doesn't do what he's doing for us, I can only imagine where we'd be. I can't imagine a player on a winning team being more valuable to his team than he's been.
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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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Winners make commitments, losers make excuses.
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I'm sure somebody can. Maybe some day. Maybe some day.
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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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Each person has to respect the other and realize that guy is more important than he is,
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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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Again, I think we've earned more than that. It hasn't been just one year, or two years. It's been 12. Consecutive, record-breaking years. That buys a little credibility.
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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.
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I have no comment as it relates to the sale or the announcement of the sale. I will continue to do my job in the same manner I've done it every day I've been here.