Bill Bavasi
Bill Bavasi
William J. Bavasiis a former Major League Baseball general manager. He currently works as director of the Major League Baseball Scouting Bureau, appointed in November 2014. Bavasi previously served as an assistant to the GM for the Cincinnati Reds, under Reds general manager Walt Jocketty. The son of longtime MLB executive Buzzie Bavasi and the brother of Peter Bavasi, also a former MLB executive, Bill also spent six full seasonsas the general manager of the California/Anaheim Angels and a 4½...
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We're real excited about this. This is a big change in a real important position on our club. We're going from a position of weakness behind the plate to one of strength.
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We were impressed that a young kid could make the jump from high-A to competing at the big-league level in Colorado. This was an opportunity for us to continue to build our inventory of young, major league-level pitching prospects.
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We'll seek to pursue Ryan, but with a different financial approach. But you seldom see a guy say, 'Yeah, I'll come right back.' Yet, he likes it here, so we'll see.
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We'll see if we can fine-tune it. Those are important spots, but we have no major trades (in the works).
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We did not ever get to the point where we had to discuss that. From our point of view, it was important to get it done now to stay away from that question.
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We really felt we had to get a better pitcher into our rotation, along with making our pitchers a little better. This is the first step toward that.
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Would you blame him if he had interest in Felix Hernandez? I'm a guy who worked my tail off to get Carlos Delgado.
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This provides us with a great opportunity to play in front of our fans in the Northwest before we begin the regular season.