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...
adding bring excited gold himself orlando truly
I'm excited that we were able to bring Miguel Batista back to the Valley, where he truly established himself during his first stint here, while also adding a Gold Glove infielder in Orlando Hudson.
club contract control four type
This is the type of contract a club doesn't have to do. We had Brandon under control through arbitration for four more years, but it is something we wanted to do.
beyond both camp expect hopefully job learn lessons mature physically rather sooner win
He's mature beyond his years, both ways, physically and mentally. We didn't expect him to come in here and be overwhelmed by it. I think he'll learn a lot and he'll take the lessons and hopefully be in camp to win a job sooner rather than later.
filled hope several
We had a need, and we hope it's filled for several years now.
continue course educate policy reminder support
We of course support the policy in place, and this is a reminder that we need to continue to educate our players.
cutting jason sets staff strengths
We like Jason Bulger. But we think the way our staff sets up now, one of the strengths is the depth. Cutting him is something we debated, but you have to give up something to get something.
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.
best contract mound pitchers smart
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.
close happy leagues major relatively rush
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.