Dave Dombrowski
Dave Dombrowski
David Dombrowskiis a professional baseball executive and currently the President of Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. Dombrowski has previously served as the general manager of the Montreal Expos, and the general manager and president of the Florida Marlins and Detroit Tigers...
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He's a proven winner. He's a leader. When you walk into a room, you know he's in charge. He can bring in young players and work with them, but he can also work with veteran players.
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He's a player we like a great deal, as we've said all along, but where we are and what his situation is financially just doesn't mesh.
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He's an outstanding manager, one of the best in baseball.
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I'm sure that both sports offer their own unique challenges when developing young talent. But I think baseball is more of a crapshoot because you're generally looking at a longer time frame in the maturation process of a young prospect.
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But I don't think in my own mind I had a perspective on how long it would take, but we knew it wasn't something that would happen overnight.
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If he had hit the way he did the last six weeks of last season, the fit would've been there. Right now, we haven't seen it.
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If he would've hit like he hit the last six weeks of the season, we would've found a spot for him.
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The No. 1 key for our club is health because if we can keep our everyday players on the field, we'll score runs. We have the capability to have a solid pitching staff, especially with the additions of Kenny Rogers, Todd Jones and our two young pitchers.
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It's an inexact science. That's why you need to have a system that's consistently producing good prospects.
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It was one of the greatest clubs put together in recent time.
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It's well deserved. He had a great season last year. We're happy to see him that honor.
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It took about two minutes. I knew he was ready.
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It works out well - Lou lives in Lakeland, and he's a great Tiger. He's worked hard on the field for us and has done a good job in spring training.
field good great hard job lives spring worked works
It works out well -- Lou lives in Lakeland, and he's a great Tiger. He's worked hard on the field for us and has done a good job in spring training.