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
felt guys leagues playing ups
We felt relieved. These guys are professional. They've been playing in the big leagues for years and they're used to ups and downs.
desire everybody guys prepared saw themselves
Everybody who had the desire to play prepared themselves for this tournament. Our guys saw enough pitches. They had enough at-bats. No excuses.
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.
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.
fantastic guys happy hitters pitchers playing second
It's over, the second round, we went through it, and I feel fantastic because most of the guys now are in playing shape. The pitchers have been able to go out there more than once, and the hitters had enough at-bats, so I'm happy for the guys.
allowed extra guys owe ready regular responsibility spring training
We have a responsibility to get these guys ready for the regular season. We are doing pretty much what they do in Spring Training like fundamentals and extra work. We owe it to them and to the organizations that allowed these guys to play.
guys managers ready regular responsibility
We're going to play to win, but as managers we also have the responsibility to have these guys ready for the regular season.
guys pride serious
Our guys take it very serious and show a lot of pride in this kind of stuff.
chance everybody guys happy performance
I'm very happy with the performance of the guys here. And everybody had a chance to play.
guys reasons remind supposed
All of those guys were supposed to come over here with him and I think that's one of the reasons he doesn't want to come. It would remind him.
games last line saw time using won
We will using the line up that you saw out there today. It's not time to make big changes. That line up won the last to games for us.
baseball pitch strike
They always say the most important pitch in baseball is Strike 1. It's even more important now.
bad baseball left offer year
There's still a lot of baseball left in Sosa, he's only had one bad year and has a lot to offer the Dominican team.
credit deserve hard rather
We really went at it hard like professionals. They deserve the credit. I'd rather give them credit than make excuses.