Allard Baird
Allard Baird
Allard Bairdis an American professional baseball executive and the former general manager of the Kansas City Royals. He now works for the Boston Red Sox as senior vice president, player personnel, serving under President of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski. He joined Boston in 2006 as an assistant to the general manager after his firing in Kansas City and later was named vice president and director of professional scouting...
definitely feeling interest pursuing
We definitely have an interest and we are pursuing it. I do not get the feeling that anything is imminent.
beyond clubhouse goes value
What he's done in the clubhouse and with the young players, I can't say enough about him. His value to the ballclub goes well beyond his numbers.
alex few good high player rodriguez saw wants
Very few times do you see a player who you can say he can be as good as he wants to be. Literally. I saw Alex Rodriguez in high school, and you could say it about him. That's what I think about Carlos.
gauge stay
We're better. If you want to gauge it, you gauge it at the end of the season. As long as we stay healthy, we're a better club.
added continue depth good improved increased innings left team
We've added two innings starters, we've added some team speed, we've improved our defense, we've increased our depth in the bullpen. So I feel good about that. But we still have some things left to do. We'll continue to be aggressive.
looking projection start turning
We're still in a developmental stage, but we said we need to see some results. We want to start turning projection into production. We're looking for more results.
fall league puerto rican time
From there, we'd like to get him in the fall league and, if he does well and where he's at stamina-wise, we may even look at the Puerto Rican League just to make up for some of the time that he has not been on the field.
baseball pitch
If it was a pitch count, a baseball issue, I could tell you.
ahead arm indicator knee next outing relationship strength terms
His next outing will be a big indicator where his knee is at in relationship to where his arm is. His arm is ahead of his knee right now in terms of strength and stamina.
spring start training
When he does get back, it will be like he has to start with spring training all over again.
people remember
He was really quiet, unassuming, to himself. A lot of people here still remember him as little Johnny.
anticipate move obviously player quickly skilled
He is obviously a skilled player that we anticipate will move quickly through our system.
aid handling pitching receiving skills
He has solid, above-average receiving skills and is above-average in handling a pitching staff. He'll be able to aid us in the development of Buck.
ball fly pitcher
He is a fly ball pitcher and I think it's going to help.