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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It would provide us with options and depth. You never want to be in a position where injuries would put us in a bad spot or we didn't have depth to make a move if one presented itself.
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As far as the outfield, he can play all three positions. He has some athleticism and he provides some speed, which we don't necessarily have an abundance of. He was once a top prospect. He had that reputation.
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Avoiding the arbitration process for the next two years with a core player such as Mark is an important step for both he and the club. We're hopeful the contract is the continuation of a relationship that will last well beyond the term of this agreement.
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The sense of urgency is always there. Whether we made 20 moves or one, Buck will have these guys prepared to play hard everyday. I get paid to have a short- and a long-term perspective. Every night at 7:05, Buck and the team have a three-hour perspective.
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I've made calls and received calls. A lot of notes and a lot of conversations. But at this point I don't expect anything to materialize.
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Teixeira told Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News. ''I can't have much issue with a guy I've never even talked to. But I can say this: We haven't won as much as we'd like to in the last few years, so maybe a change was needed.
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Put it this way. We really didn't put him in a position to succeed.
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Coco is healthy and his stuff is there. At this point, it's just a matter of harnessing that. I've got concerns in the short term.
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Coco had a good year for us last year. But he had set his own bar so high the year before, that's why some people may have been looking for more.
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As important as he is to the club on the field, to the organization, to this community, we certainly didn't want to get into an acrimonious setting where effectively we're paying lawyers to tell independent arbitrators how little we think of Mark. We wanted to avoid that. He shared that sentiment with us. It's a mutually beneficial deal.
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We like everything we've seen about him. He has great makeup and he fits in with a veteran group in the bullpen who have taken him under their wing.
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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.