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
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.
Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games.
I like the pitchers we have in Jon Lieber and Brett Myers, but I think we still need a real power type of pitcher who can stop the bleeding or stop a losing streak. Is there someone out there? Sure, there are pitchers out there, but it's about what you need to give up to get. I'm talking to clubs all the time and evaluating this every day.
Everybody sits at home and gets the advantage of replays. If they want to huddle together for five minutes to get the play right, they could replay it in the same period of time or a shorter period of time and get it right.
We're trying to add more depth to our pitching staff and give Charlie more people to look at in spring training.
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,
There are a lot of positives that have happened that make our club better than it was in February.