Jim Bowden
Jim Bowden
James Goodwin Bowden IVis a baseball analyst and insider for ESPN. He writes a blog for ESPN.com titled "The GM's Office" and is a co-host of SiriusXM's "Inside Pitch" on MLB Network Radio. He used to be a host and co-host on Fox Sports Radio, a baseball analyst for FoxSports.com and a Baseball Insider for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels for Fox Sports West. He has held positions of Senior Vice President and General Manager for both...
close door everybody opportunity preference team
My preference would be to keep him, you're a much better team with him. But I'll never close the door -- ever -- on an opportunity to make everybody happy.
close door everybody happy opportunity players preference team
My preference is to keep him, because we're a much better team with him. But I'll never close the door on an opportunity to make everybody happy. My preference is for everyone to be happy in this game. Organizations and players do better when we're all happy.
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Obviously, if we knew it was going to play out this way, we wouldn't have done it. My preference would be to keep him. We're a much better team with him. My preference is for everyone to be happy in this game. Organizations do better, players do better when we're all happy.
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I think we have gone in the right direction in terms of getting better. I just think it's going to take time to where we want to go. It's about the young players. We have a pretty good corps of young guys that keep getting better. When you have young guys, they get better and have enthusiasm.
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I think we've made some progress in development, ... But overall, we've got a long way to go. I felt very strongly that we needed to make a change at the top in that department.
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Jamey was not going to make this team. And because of how strong our personal feelings were toward Jamey, we felt we owed it to him to make this move prior to the start of camp.
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Larry is a guy that could help us this year. I want him to play every day and get his at-bats because he is going to be a good player. He has made a lot of progress and I think he will continue to make progress.
goal solution towards win work
Our goal is to win and find a solution that works. Do we have the solution this moment? No. But we're going to work towards the solution, and we'll get one.
number starting
We don't have a lot of depth. We're already on starting pitcher, what, 10 or 11? What number is it?
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We have some good solid players and not a lot of strikeouts. It's better than people think.
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We had great discussions. I think it's important to understand where each side is coming from. I think we had an opportunity to look at each other eye-to-eye and go through the issues of the club and the issues of where Alfonso is coming from. We have a lot of respect for Alfonso as a player and as a person. And he understands our situation and where we're coming from.
care five next responsibility tomorrow
Our responsibility is to take care of him for the long-term, not just today, tomorrow or the next day. We need him for the long run, the next three, four, five years.
build component denied franchise interview opportunity vital
Recently, we denied another organization the opportunity to interview Dana because we view him as vital component of this franchise as we build for the future.
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It depends on his history. If a guy has a history at all or lack of durability or those kind of problems, we do it, or if we see something in his arm action that says we should do that. We saw every single one of his starts the last couple months, and the player looked healthy.