Manny Acta
Manny Acta
Manuel Elias Actais a former professional baseball manager who is currently the third base coach for the Seattle Mariners, and formerly a broadcast analyst for ESPN and ESPN Deportes. He has served as manager for the Washington Nationals and the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball. In the Dominican Winter League, he managed the Tigres del Licey from 2003–2005, including leading them to victory at the 2004 Caribbean Series. Acta managed the Dominican Republic team at the 2006 World Baseball...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth11 January 1969
feeling gut
I have a gut feeling he's going to pitch.
bank brought chance contract guys leave million patriotism teams word
I don't want the word patriotism being brought up over here because of these guys being professional and (some) other teams are not. Because when you have $100 million in the bank and a contract and you leave everything and take a chance and come over here and play for your country, if that isn't patriotism, I don't know what it is.
four special team together
(The WBC) is going to be every four years, but I don't know if in four years we'll be able to put together a team like we have right now. This is a pretty special group.
base deserves england face faking fan likeable pro time united
He's become the face of a big part of the United States, a big part of the New England fan base and he deserves it. He's a pro on and off the field, a very likeable guy, and he's true. He's legit. He's not faking anything for a long time now, and he deserves everything he's got right now.
desire everybody guys prepared saw themselves
Everybody who had the desire to play prepared themselves for this tournament. Our guys saw enough pitches. They had enough at-bats. No excuses.
everybody fell good hit lack people pitching tournament
I think our pitching was great. Actually things kind of flip-flopped a little bit. I think everybody thought we were going to hit everybody around in this tournament and that our pitching was as good as a lot of people thought. Our pitching did a very good job, and we just fell short. It wasn't lack of pitching at all.
great job stepped
Cabrera just stepped up and did a great job.
guys pride serious
Our guys take it very serious and show a lot of pride in this kind of stuff.
anxious competition face played type
We're anxious to face Cuba. We've never played them before in this type of competition.
bona closer lost
We lost our bona fide closer and our No. 1 guy.
guys managers ready regular responsibility
We're going to play to win, but as managers we also have the responsibility to have these guys ready for the regular season.
allowed extra guys owe ready regular responsibility spring training
We have a responsibility to get these guys ready for the regular season. We are doing pretty much what they do in Spring Training like fundamentals and extra work. We owe it to them and to the organizations that allowed these guys to play.
available definitely healthy priority
We definitely know he's not going to be available for the first round. The priority is that he's healthy first. He does want to participate, and we do want him to participate.
behind family move stand support until window yesterday
We had a window up until yesterday and it's just been shut. We support his decision, stand behind him - family comes first. And we're going to have to move on with what we have.