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 trying to add more depth to our pitching staff and give Charlie more people to look at in spring training.
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.
I want to win, and whatever the manager and the pitching coach think it takes, we'll go in that direction.
He's had a good spring. Coming into Spring Training, I didn't have any expectations for him, because he didn't have a good 2005 season, and didn't pitch particularly well in Puerto Rico. He exceeded my expectations, because he wasn't a guy who would've even been considered for somewhere in the pitching staff.
Everybody's looking for pitching and there's not a lot of pitching out on the market. Consequently, it's economics.
The only time I really have to worry is sometimes I'm off thinking about something and walk through a green light and almost get hit by a car.
We thought it was a pretty soft market. The market was overpriced.
We just felt this situation fit in the direction we wanted to go. We wanted to solidify the back end of the bullpen and we think Rhodes helps us do that.
Bobby and John kind of came from the same background,
Fans here are rabid, ... It's important that you connect to them.
We're disappointed. We thought we had a competitive offer.
We'll have to visually observe what he looks like. We'll get a pretty good idea over the next couple of days where he is.
We had a good situation with Howard and Thome here,
We're trying to get over the hump, and he's a big part of it,