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
games last line saw time using won
We will using the line up that you saw out there today. It's not time to make big changes. That line up won the last to games for us.
felt guys leagues playing ups
We felt relieved. These guys are professional. They've been playing in the big leagues for years and they're used to ups and downs.
credit deserve hard rather
We really went at it hard like professionals. They deserve the credit. I'd rather give them credit than make excuses.
anxious competition face played type
We're anxious to face Cuba. We've never played them before in this type of competition.
guy hurting
We're pretty excited. He's a guy that is really hurting right now because he's not here.
credit held offense
You have to give all the credit to their pitching, which held our offense to only one run. They just flat-out outplayed us.
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.
baseball basketball country expects favorites hockey ok team winning
There are no favorites in baseball. You can do it in basketball or hockey or any other sport, but in baseball there are no favorites. Our country expects a winning team and we are OK with that. We are going to go round-by-round, but we don't want to let our country down.
almost bank excited money next stone window
There is a window in that we'll have big 27 show up for the next round. It's not etched in stone yet, but it's almost money in the bank and we're pretty excited about it.
stars toughest
We have so many stars that the toughest part is getting our roster down to 30 players.