Tony Tavares
Tony Tavares
Tony Tavares is an American accountant and sports executive. He has served as the team president for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League, and for the Anaheim Angels and Montreal Expos / Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball...
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Jim is one of the hardest working general managers in the game and I have every confidence that he will improve our team this off-season while continuing to build a solid foundation that will yield a perennial winning franchise worthy of the great city of Washington.
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I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Jim this past season and look forward to working with him over the next several months,
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Is it disappointing? Of course it is. I think it's a wonderful tradition. It's a big deal every year. Having him do this is a great tradition and I am sure if he could have done it, he would have. But as of now I think the answer is going to be no.
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There wouldn't be any difference in cost for the season ticket holder, ... It's something we're thinking about. It's something we'll continue to discuss.
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There won't be decisions until after the World Series is over,
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At the beginning of the year, we have a budget that provides for a call-up of 'X' amount of players, ... We're going to be over budget on that as it is. You can't call up 30 guys.
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I think he's done a good job, ... He's got a vision. He's got a plan, and he sticks with his plan. I think for all those reasons, and the fact that he's a very hard-working guy -- I'd stack him up with anybody in that GM's capacity -- he deserved this.
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We've got to get the accounting department here. We've had too many problems with getting bills paid, bills getting paid late, and what got lost in the mail between Montreal and here.
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Had he gone into the training program that we had for him, we weren't going to pitch him in a game until March 25 or so. And all of this got accelerated for the sake of Mexico. We question their team trainers and how they handled our player.
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I can't hold anybody back, ... We've told our coaches, our manager, our GM that if there's a job that is available to you and you want to interview for it, you should. It would be inappropriate of me to be denying permission for teams to speak with our people.
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If we don't start moving, we're going to be scraping the bottom of the barrel, ... You lose people every now and then if you wait.
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The player wanted to play, so he has complicity in this for not listening to what the doctors told him. And baseball and the players union has complicity in this as well. Everybody that is involved in this decision should be ashamed of themselves.
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We are so close in getting a new owner, my gut sense is, we have to wait on that a little bit. As I told you guys before, I have to work within certain limitations. There's nothing I can do about that. The new owner can write his own script. We have told Jose this. The owner doesn't have to fully take over, but we would like that person to talk to him about the contract.
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Does he belong on the disqualified list? Our answer is yes. He is failing to perform his services. Never in the history of baseball has a player been able to pick his position.