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
guys reasons remind supposed
All of those guys were supposed to come over here with him and I think that's one of the reasons he doesn't want to come. It would remind him.
baseball believe classic people playing remind talent
I believe that part of what the World Classic did was remind people that baseball talent comes from all over the world. There are a lot of people playing this game.
chance everybody guys happy performance
I'm very happy with the performance of the guys here. And everybody had a chance to play.
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It's a short tournament and we have to stay humble about it. It's baseball and anything can happen. We feel very good about the group we got here. We actually have the group we wanted and they seem to have the special love to play for their country.
baseball pitch strike
They always say the most important pitch in baseball is Strike 1. It's even more important now.
consider considered dodgers equal job mind open proud surprise team took tradition
It took me by surprise that a team with such tradition as the Dodgers would consider me. I'm going with an open mind as if the job was mine. The Dodgers are equal to baseball, so I feel proud to be considered to be their manager.
second
I don't know Soriano as an outfielder. He is here to play second base.
attention community crowd focused game help paying players
The crowd did help us. We have a big Dominican community here. But I think the game was so good, the players weren't even paying attention to the fans. They were focused on the game.
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I think we can play a lot better. I think we could have scored at least 12 runs. We didn't do the things we were supposed to do.
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I would start spring training a week earlier so the players would get five or six exhibition games in before starting.
sign
It is a sign of what we can do.
game island million others soul spread watched
This will be a game watched by every Dominican soul, the 8 million we have on the island and all the others spread around the world.
everybody happy hit supposed venezuela
We're the ones who are supposed to hit everybody around, but Venezuela didn't let us do that. We showed our hearts, and we are very happy to be in the finals.
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We have big stars in our country, and it's tough to trim our roster. There are lots of expectations around our club. I think we're going to fulfill them.