Tim Purpura
Tim Purpura
Tim Purpurais a former General Manager of the Houston Astros Major League Baseball team. He was with the club from 2005 to 2007. He is currently Senior Director of Player Development for the Texas Rangers...
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We have a personal services contract with him. If he wanted to do that, that's something we'd have to run by the commissioner's office. Other clubs could have an issue with it.
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I think it gives everybody a chance to just decompress from the night before. We're in the middle of October and physically, I think things begin to take a toll on guys. We had a somewhat leisurely day here ... it gives guys a little bit more of an opportunity to relax, go out to dinner and take a break from it.
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But it's not the arm. He's not having any problem with his arm. I really want to hear what he has to say about how he feels, and does he want to crank it up one more year.
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I think you'd have to chain him down to keep him from starting.
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I know he's a free swinger, but at least half his strikeouts this spring have been looking. That leads me to believe that he's trying to be more aware of the strike zone. He's still going to strike out a high percentage of the time. But he's more cognizant of it, and is trying to get better pitches to hit.
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Got quite a few. I've still got a few balls at home.
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I'm as proud to see Freddy Garcia pitching in the World Series as I am to see Raul Chavez playing in the World Series,
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Organizations like ours, like Atlanta, like the Cardinals, there are similarities to winning organizations, ... You have that focus that it's about winning, only winning. You have to have higher expectations than other people. And sometimes, you have to flush guys out of your system that might not buy into it, that might put their stats first, rather than winning. In those types of organizations, guys like that don't last, and they kind of self-select themselves out, and you end up being able to win on a consistent basis because you keep the guys who buy into that.
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They're on different plains right now. Biggio is playing every day, Bagwell is not. In some ways, I think Biggio is carrying on for Jeff. He's carrying the mantle a little bit.
anywhere plans zero
We have zero plans to go anywhere else.
gone teammates ups
When you've been teammates that long, you're going to go through some ups and downs. They've gone through some down times.
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We've turned our focus toward the outfield and adding a run producer from the outfield. We're edging closer to that.
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We've got another goal in mind for next year and the year's after ? but we could not have done this without (the fans). You stayed with us in April and May when we struggled. You stayed with us in June, July and August. And, now you are here to celebrate with us today. You're a big part of why we have been successful,
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We take it game by game, day by day. We try to do our best job today, and hopefully that is good enough, and then we go on to tomorrow. I think that's the attitude right now.