Josh Byrnes
Josh Byrnes
Josh Byrnes is an American baseball executive who served as the General Manager of the Arizona Diamondbacksand the San Diego Padres. He is the current Vice President of Baseball Operations of the Los Angeles Dodgers...
determined healthy impact pushing year
He's determined to do better this year and it could impact his contractual future. I think that's healthy determination, but no one's pushing him here.
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It was obvious when I first arrived here how important Brandon was to this pitching staff and one of our immediate goals was to make sure he remained in a Diamondback uniform as we look to the future.
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There's been some. I think as we get closer to the end, teams are a little more direct in their communication. He's had a great camp. He's had a good showing, top to bottom.
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So many of the people and circumstances here make this a great fit, and it feels like a dream job.
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Leaving Boston was not easy. It was a high level of passion to win, a unique rivalry, a baseball operations staff which was a great, great place to work. That's what I need to learn here and need to recreate here.
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This is a significant step for our organization and we look forward to seeing this talented young man in uniform.
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This deal gives us some short-term help ? two pitchers that can help our club ? and in our minds a future everyday front-line center fielder who's not that far away, which is hard to find.
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He's just a man. The ball really jumps off his bat. It's unusual for someone that age.
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I think there's strength in numbers. And I think that we've covered ourselves with the rotation just by virtue of the fact that there's strength in numbers.
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We of course support the policy in place, and this is a reminder that we need to continue to educate our players.
anxious monitor spring
We are all anxious to see him this spring and monitor his development in our organization.
wire
We're going to take it right down to the wire to make that decision.
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We've got him on a one-year contract and we need to be smart about how we use him. But we feel like when he's on the mound he can be one of the very best pitchers in baseball.
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We feel like he's relatively close but we also don't want to rush his progression to the major leagues just because we're so happy to get him.