Andrew Friedman
Andrew Friedman
Andrew Friedman is the President of Baseball Operations of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball. He previously served as the general manager for the Tampa Bay Rays, where Sporting News named him Executive of the Year in 2008. That year, for the first time in franchise history, the Rays both qualified for the playoffs and played in the World Series...
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difficult faced games helped march preparing rehab rest trying
He's doing well. I think the most difficult thing he faced was preparing to play games on March 7 and trying to rehab at the same time. I think the rest has helped a lot.
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He's a very experienced bullpen arm. The landscape of relief pitchers is fairly inconsistent year to year, but Dan has remained consistent.
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He's a tremendous talent and I would never bet against him.
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He understands what it takes to make a team successful.
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He's confirmed he's the top hombre for the job.
extremely opening optimistic ready ron
From all the conversations our trainer, Ron Porterfield, has had with Carl we are extremely optimistic that Carl will be ready to go opening day.
timetable
With hamstrings, it's tough. We don't want to put a timetable on it.
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With hamstring injuries, it's hard to predict. We talked to Rocco this morning and what we said is, 'Let's not set a firm date. Let's do it when you feel good.' We don't want him to keep targeting some specific date.
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We are very committed to the development process and we can't let things that happen affect that.
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We are very committed to helping his assimilation to the American society. We feel that the less of that stuff he can worry about the more he can concentrate on his pitching. We're trying to put him in the best position to succeed at the major-league level.
anyone behavior cannot devil tolerate type
We do not tolerate this type of behavior from anyone in the Devil Rays' organization. It cannot and will not be repeated.
athletic good next pitching scores team year
Next year we are going to have an athletic team that scores runs, so we want to have some good young pitching on the way.
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One of our concerns with Shields was his being in big league camp for the first time. You know, trying to push it and impress the new staff. But he has a great maturity level and aptitude. He has a good head on his shoulders. He seeks direction.
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The stuff that made him rated that high is still there. He still possesses that dominant stuff and we're excited to get him in the organization.