Jon Daniels
Jon Daniels
Jon Danielsis the current President of Baseball Operations and General Manager of the Major League Baseball team Texas Rangers. Daniels led the Rangers to 2 World Series appearances in 2010 and 2011. Under Daniels leadership the Rangers joined the Blue Jaysand the Yankeesas the only franchises to win back-to-back American League pennants in the last 22 years. When hired at age 28, he was the youngest GM in Major League Baseball at the time...
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I couldn't have seen this coming. I don't think anybody could have.
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Bullpen, I think, is the most unpredictable part of the game, for me. You can build a quality bullpen so many ways. What I want is to slip a few pieces of it in and then bring in a lot of quality arms, then sort it out from there.
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Somebody his age and at the stage of his development, we don't want him sitting around for a long period of time and not playing.
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She nodded her head approvingly, ... I was a little surprised.
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Oakland has really improved itself, Seattle has improved itself and Anaheim has a ton of young players coming up ready to help them. It's a really competitive division and we had to take some steps to stay in the mix.
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Obviously, Buck's opinion is going to be heard, ... I think that's the case with all managers or at least it should be. But there will be a lot of people involved in all the decisions we make.
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We hope to make the decision at the end of the year that we want to keep him beyond the term of the deal.
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I will have some different ideas from how we've done things in the past. I will have some creative ways that we will look at things. But we are not going to stray from the good things we've built here.
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My mind-set right now is if we have a hole, we'll have to fill it. We have a lot of options to consider.
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Mark is an integral part of what we are trying to do here. He's the kind of person and player we want to build around.
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Our internal discussions, from Day 1, were to do what it took to acquire a front-line pitcher. That was our top priority and still is.
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There is a hunger level on the team and we want to see what we can do. This is not a perfect roster or win-at-all costs situation. We have the opportunity for the next few years to continue to put out a competitive club.
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We told him that we support him but it's time to step it up. We're starting to make decisions. He seemed to embrace that. We'll see how his next outing goes.
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What we had talked about at one point was a deal that would go into his free agent years, but we agreed to disagree and this was the best compromise for us at the time. It was an amicable resolution on both sides. ... With a player of Mark's caliber and how important he is to the club and organization, we certainly didn't want to get into an acrimonious setting with an independent arbitrator.