Jon Daniels
Jon Daniels
Jon Danielsis the current President of Baseball Operations and General Manager of the Major League Baseball team Texas Rangers. Daniels led the Rangers to 2 World Series appearances in 2010 and 2011. Under Daniels leadership the Rangers joined the Blue Jaysand the Yankeesas the only franchises to win back-to-back American League pennants in the last 22 years. When hired at age 28, he was the youngest GM in Major League Baseball at the time...
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She nodded her head approvingly, ... I was a little surprised.
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We've had good reports on him the last couple of years. He's a tall (6-foot-4), athletic pitcher who throws strikes with all three pitches. He has a live arm and a chance to have an above-average breaking ball. He has an advanced feel for pitching.
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We've had varying degrees of negotiation and we are closer in some cases than others. We exchanged figures and we have a second round of negotiations coming.
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We like everything we've seen about him. He has great makeup and he fits in with a veteran group in the bullpen who have taken him under their wing.
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You grow up quick when you're a kid from Queens, riding the subway by yourself, ... You see things. You have an awareness of your surroundings. I think that made me a little more observant than I otherwise would have been.
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We hope to make the decision at the end of the year that we want to keep him beyond the term of the deal.
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We'd like to get him up here as soon as possible.
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We looked for durability and consistency. In today's game, 200 innings is the benchmark that defines consistency and durability. The inherent value is that it takes you directly from the starters to the back end of your bullpen. It allows you to bypass the more unpredictable parts of the pitching staff.
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Three years with 200 hits and a batting title, and he's not satisfied.
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We're hoping for the best and preparing for everything else. We're going to look at our internal options and keep our external conversations going.
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We want to let him get a sense of where we're at and the framework of some of the ideas we're going to mull over the next month.
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We told him that we support him but it's time to step it up. We're starting to make decisions. He seemed to embrace that. We'll see how his next outing goes.
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What we had talked about at one point was a deal that would go into his free agent years, but we agreed to disagree and this was the best compromise for us at the time. It was an amicable resolution on both sides. ... With a player of Mark's caliber and how important he is to the club and organization, we certainly didn't want to get into an acrimonious setting with an independent arbitrator.
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We have no active trade discussions going. Danny didn't play last year; we need to see what kind of shape he is in. There's nothing wrong with competition.