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
I think we could play a lot better than what we played. I think we should have scored at least 12 runs.
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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.
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Knowing Pedro, he doesn't want to participate just to participate.
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I would start spring training a week earlier so the players would get five or six exhibition games in before starting.
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I think it's going to be a terrific atmosphere. The four teams here are going to have good baseball.
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We lost our bona fide closer and our No. 1 guy.
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We made the decision it's the best thing for us. He's dying because he wanted to participate so bad, but unfortunately he won't be able to do it.
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He'll probably pitch as much as he would if he was in Spring Training.
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We're pretty excited. He's a guy that is really hurting right now because he's not here.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We have big stars in our country, and it's tough to trim our roster. There are lots of expectations around our club. I think we're going to fulfill them.
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Most of the players here were not involved in the Caribbean Series. That was something that basically the fans were the ones that were really involved in that, took it personal. We were going to try to beat whoever we faced, whether they speak English, Spanish or Italian.