Jim Duquette
Jim Duquette
James "Jim" Duquette was the general manager of the New York Mets for the 2004 season, before the team replaced him with Omar Minaya. Duquette subsequently stayed with the Mets in a front office job for a full season before moving on to the Baltimore Orioles. With the Orioles former vice president of baseball operations, where he worked under Mike Flanagan, the team's general manager...
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A lot of getting better defensively is hard work. And in David's case, you know he's going to work hard. You're pretty safe expecting him to improve.
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It's still ongoing, so I don't have a number for you. But there have been a fair amount of scouts fired or reassigned on the amateur side.
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I think we look at him a little differently in that there's a possibility he can play a little first base and give him a little more versatility. Right now, we feel that he'll still be an outfielder. You just never know in this game. When opportunities present themselves, they don't always present themselves in the form you're expecting.
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Miguel said all he wanted was for the team to improve. He wants to win. He doesn't know how that got blown out of proportion, and he feels terrible the way it played out.
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Our pursuit of Kris goes back to November. One of our goals going into the off-season was to acquire another pitcher.
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He's the ideal player you'd want your daughter to date. I can name you some in this game I wouldn't want a daughter to date.
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Because of time constraints we weren't able to conclude a deal with Scott Strickland to tender him a contract. We still plan to negotiate with him.
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Of course we watch what the Yankees do, ... but our feeling is they're an island in the game. We're not going to compete with their payroll or revenues. We expect that this team will have a lot more fun than last year's, doing it quietly, without a $180 million payroll.
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I wasn't going to disrupt my family situation and a situation that I think was good here to take a lateral move, ... It has more authority, more responsibility, more decision-making responsibility than it does here.
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Our feeling was let's not block him and sign a guy to a long-term contract unless he's a dominating closer like B.J. was. There really wasn't that kind of animal on the free agent market.
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We've been having a dialogue since the beginning of January. We're hopeful it's going to get done. He's obviously a guy we'd like to keep in an Oriole uniform for a number of years.
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We've had players with potential before, but not with the work ethic that they have. The thing about these two is that you know that whatever their potential is, they're going to reach it.
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What you don't want to do is put too much pressure on them, too much added expectations. They had enough expectations in New York. I don't know if you can ever ease a player into the New York scene. It's something that a guy like Carlos Beltran, Mike Piazza, Cliff Floyd, they can take the pressure off the two young guys so they can go about their business and develop at their own pace.
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We haven't decided what we're going to do yet, ... We're still talking about it.