Theo Epstein
Theo Epstein
Theo Nathaniel Epsteinis the President of Baseball Operations for the Chicago Cubs...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth29 December 1973
CityNew York City, NY
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The schedule says we play at the end and the standings say we're pretty close and those games will matter, ... Both teams have survived the toughest division in baseball and whoever wins the series will probably get into the playoffs. They might be the only one.
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This year, for a lot reasons and for a lot of teams, has been an exercise in survival. Getting past the attrition of a long year for a lot of different reasons. We both survived in probably the toughest division in baseball to get to a point where whomever wins that series will probably get in. It doesn't matter how we got here. It's what we do the rest of the way.
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We trust this guy's makeup. He's a guy we're very comfortable with on the mound.
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We felt that there's probably no one on the planet better suited than Doug to do this. We had a chance to get him at a reasonable cost. So that made sense to us.
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We think investing in Coco was a wise move.
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These concepts of vision and togetherness are only words if we don't live up to them. We understand that our actions are much more meaningful than our words.
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I understand there's been some interest in talking to me over the last couple of days, as evidenced by the cameras outside my house and the fact that I left in a gorilla suit the other day, ... That thing's getting itchy, so I thought I would just come here and try to answer your questions today.
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The way our bullpen has been, this will be a good opportunity for us. If he gets on a roll, and throws strikes, he has a chance to really help us. We don't have a lot of strikeout-type stuff up and down our 'pen. This is a chance to add a guy with a great arm.
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There's a fine line between winning and losing in the postseason. We got outplayed in October, and that happens. And if it happens for three games, you're going home.
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We don't think 11 pitchers are really necessary in a five-game series, especially with the way we line up. We like our pitching staff.
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Well, we don't really want to get into exactly how many runs we expect to score, but I think it's safe to say that our expectation is that we'll allow fewer runs than we did last year. There might be a chance that we score fewer runs, too. The key is differential.
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We have a handful of guys ready to step in,