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
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.
feeling gut
I have a gut feeling he's going to pitch.
caribbean cuba
This is the real kind of Caribbean World Series, especially having Cuba in there.
baseball four good teams terrific
I think it's going to be a terrific atmosphere. The four teams here are going to have good baseball.
pitch spring
He'll probably pitch as much as he would if he was in Spring Training.
knowing
Knowing Pedro, he doesn't want to participate just to participate.
credit holding looked scoreboard
I looked at the scoreboard at the end of the game. We weren't going to win, 1-0. They flat-out outplayed us, and you have to give all the credit to Vazquez for holding down this offense.
nice
It's nice to have depth, and that's what we have.
contribute game good hope next people round wake
The good thing is that in every game we had a different hero, so different people contributed to those different wins. I hope that Alfonso Soriano and Miguel Tejada wake up for the next round and they contribute more.
fantastic guys happy hitters pitchers playing second
It's over, the second round, we went through it, and I feel fantastic because most of the guys now are in playing shape. The pitchers have been able to go out there more than once, and the hitters had enough at-bats, so I'm happy for the guys.
delayed injury join later met pitch ready talk team
It's a shame, but Pedro won't pitch in the Classic. I met with Pedro to talk about this; he did everything he could, and he was ready to join the team later in the competition, but his injury delayed his preparations.
competition dominating
I can see why they are dominating international competition.
competition innings level nine team
I don't think that, with the level of competition of every team, you need to have your 'A' team out there for nine innings every day.
baseball break desire everybody guys last played prepared saw seventh themselves whatever
I think everybody in baseball knew, even before the All-Star break last year, that we were going to play this Baseball Classic, and everybody that had the desire to play prepared themselves to play for this tournament. Yes, they didn't have 100 at-bats or whatever before this, but we got all the way to the seventh game. We played two rounds, the guys saw enough pitches, they had enough at-bats. There are no excuses.