Jim Hendry
Jim Hendry
Jim Hendryis currently a special assistant for New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman, and is a former Vice President/General Manager of the Chicago Cubs. Hendry was promoted to GM on July 5, 2002 by former Cubs President/CEO Andy MacPhail. He worked for the Cubs from 1995 to 2011. Prior to his promotion to GM, he was named Assistant GM/Player Personnel Director on October 12, 2001, and previously the Director of Player Development, in charge of both Scouting and Minor League...
games guy plays taking twice
When you have a guy that plays 162 games every year, it makes that guy two stools down think twice about taking a day off.
clear player wants
The player made it real clear he wants to be here and he wants to be here long term.
again knew mark neither opening ready throwing woody
We knew neither one of them would be ready for opening day. Mark has been throwing again and has had no discomfort. Woody has been very, very good.
knew neither opening ready
We knew neither one of them would be ready for opening day.
good pitching problem
Too much pitching would be a good problem to have.
bad job year
We had a bad year and I should've done a better job myself.
bigger came deals larry turned
When Larry came here, he turned down bigger and better deals financially,
action approach best days doctors few next plan sit
We'll sit down in the next few days and plan some kind of action and get the doctors involved, and see what the best approach would be from here.
active deals gm grinding hopeful meetings pursuit rectify since until winter
We have made a lot more deals after the winter meetings since I have been GM than at the winter meetings. We are still hopeful to be active in the pursuit of an outfielder. We'll keep grinding it out until we rectify that.
developing good job position
We've done a pretty good job of developing our young pitching, but not our position players.
add decision tomorrow
We'll make a decision (Thursday night) on who we want to add to the roster tomorrow in an in-house move.
couple past
We did not see that coming. We deliberately slowed him from the past couple of years (earlier in the spring) because he had problems.
both conclusion contract forward good hitting juan looking winter
We are looking forward to Juan hitting in the leadoff spot. This contract is a good conclusion to the winter for both Juan and us.
coming good guys held situation
We're in a situation where our young guys are pretty good players. Cedeno's going to be a real good player, I think we all see that. Murton will be back soon. I think he held his own, admirably, coming from Double-A.