Kevin McClatchy
Kevin McClatchy
Kevin S. McClatchyis the chairman of The McClatchy Company and former owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team. He led a group of investors that purchased the team in 1996, and served as the team's CEO and lead owner until 2007, when Bob Nutting took over as lead owner, and McClatchy and Nutting hired Frank Coonelly to become CEO...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth13 January 1963
CitySacramento, CA
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When you look at building on Jason Bay and Jack Wilson, those are two pretty good players to start with as far as character. That's a nice aspect of it. But the key is performance and strengthening ourselves up the middle.
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There are certain players who I think haven't progressed, and we need those players to grow. Put on top of that that we have a slew of young players coming into this thing, and I think Dave just wanted to make the decision to get the best person we can to help these guys continue to develop and evolve. Some can make the argument we didn't do that this year.
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He understands that our scouting and player development system is the lifeblood of this ball club and the key to our sustained success. A few years ago, we set out to improve our farm system. We did, and continue to devote the necessary resources to that area of our organization. We are beginning to see the results of those efforts, as we see more homegrown talent at the major league level.
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As it always does, it will come down to starting pitching. I don't think you can discount a player because of youth.
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A lot of people are excited about Jim Tracy and the players we have picked up. The All-Star game is a bonus.
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There was concern there. I'm disappointed in some of the lack of improvement. Dave wanted to make sure we had the right manager in place so these players could continue to improve.
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That's one of the reasons you do these things, because you're trying to get ahead of that. We felt good about this deal. Jack's a good player and a good character guy.
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It was important to give Dave the tools he needed to go out and get these players. He's done a great job of getting some veteran players to go with our younger core.
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I'm not going to lie to you. There were some times -- and I think everybody knows when that was because we had to move some players -- that I don't think our plan was working. We were locked into bad contracts and ... it was time for significant changes. Things are working much better now because I think we're working our plan better. Quite frankly, we've got better people in place to execute the plan, too.
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I think what we need is somebody with Major League managing experience. This is just my opinion and Dave might think differently. And like I've said, it's his choice. But we've gone down the road last time with somebody who didn't have Major League managing experience.
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We are beginning to see the results of those efforts, as we see more homegrown talent at the major-league level.
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We won't know -- sort of -- the most important information for about two days.
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He has the buy-in of the entire team. We couldn't have found a better person for the job with this group we have right now.
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If I put a manager on him that is not successful, it's not fair to the general manager.