Manny Acta
Manny Acta
Manuel Elias Actais a former professional baseball manager who is currently the third base coach for the Seattle Mariners, and formerly a broadcast analyst for ESPN and ESPN Deportes. He has served as manager for the Washington Nationals and the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball. In the Dominican Winter League, he managed the Tigres del Licey from 2003–2005, including leading them to victory at the 2004 Caribbean Series. Acta managed the Dominican Republic team at the 2006 World Baseball...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth11 January 1969
anxious competition face played type
We're anxious to face Cuba. We've never played them before in this type of competition.
everybody fell good hit lack people pitching tournament
I think our pitching was great. Actually things kind of flip-flopped a little bit. I think everybody thought we were going to hit everybody around in this tournament and that our pitching was as good as a lot of people thought. Our pitching did a very good job, and we just fell short. It wasn't lack of pitching at all.
baseball break desire everybody guys last played prepared saw seventh themselves whatever
I think everybody in baseball knew, even before the All-Star break last year, that we were going to play this Baseball Classic, and everybody that had the desire to play prepared themselves to play for this tournament. Yes, they didn't have 100 at-bats or whatever before this, but we got all the way to the seventh game. We played two rounds, the guys saw enough pitches, they had enough at-bats. There are no excuses.
I think we could play a lot better than what we played. I think we should have scored at least 12 runs.
supposed
I think we can play a lot better. I think we could have scored at least 12 runs. We didn't do the things we were supposed to do.
credit gave good league mean run tied
Just because he's tied for the league lead, that doesn't mean you can't run on him. So what are you going to do? He made a good throw. You gave to give credit to him.
last papers sign
Manny is sure. He was one of the first to sign the papers last year.
sign
It is a sign of what we can do.
guys pride serious
Our guys take it very serious and show a lot of pride in this kind of stuff.
baseball four good teams terrific
I think it's going to be a terrific atmosphere. The four teams here are going to have good baseball.
bank brought chance contract guys leave million patriotism teams word
I don't want the word patriotism being brought up over here because of these guys being professional and (some) other teams are not. Because when you have $100 million in the bank and a contract and you leave everything and take a chance and come over here and play for your country, if that isn't patriotism, I don't know what it is.
pitch spring
He'll probably pitch as much as he would if he was in Spring Training.
guy hurting
We're pretty excited. He's a guy that is really hurting right now because he's not here.
bona closer lost
We lost our bona fide closer and our No. 1 guy.