Pat Gillick
Pat Gillick
Lawrence Patrick David Gillickis an American professional baseball executive, currently serving as the president of the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball. He previously served as the general manager of four MLB teams: the Toronto Blue Jays, Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Mariners, and Phillies. He guided the Blue Jays to World Series championships in 1992 and 1993, and later with the Phillies in 2008...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth22 August 1937
CountryUnited States of America
We're looking for a top-of-the-rotation guy, someone who can strike people out and stop losing streaks. I'm optimistic we can find one. They're available. It just depends on what you have to give them. You may have to overpay.
We're making an adjustment to his arm action, and we want to see if he's making it.
We're getting better. We have players who are pretty focused.
Three years we felt very comfortable with. Going to a fourth year as the Mets went to, we didn't feel that comfortable,
Wait until the championship season gets going and judge for yourselves.
We were disappointed. At the same time, you can't say you're shocked or surprised that something like this would happen.
Our corners are pretty good, ... In high school he played center, but I don't think he can play center anymore.
I still have the drive, the competitiveness, the passion.
I think Charlie has done a good job in keeping a good feeling and a good attitude in the clubhouse. The players are still very upbeat. We haven?t performed as well as we wanted from a pitching and offensive standpoint. But I don?t think that can be laid at the feet of the manager.
It doesn't make very good sense, and it's not like they don't have people who could play second base. With somebody playing out of position, all it takes is one hard slide and he could be done.
It doesn't hurt that I know him, but we made this trade based on our scouting reports from 2005. Arthur's got a good makeup. He's a gamer. He likes to win.
I want to win, and whatever the manager and the pitching coach think it takes, we'll go in that direction.
I will say this, sometimes it's addition by subtraction. That's sort of the way it is, but I don't want to knock somebody else.
It didn't come out too well. How would you view it? As it turned out, it wasn't a good exchange.