More - Jim Beattie Quotes

I know that our opponents probably aren't going to. We have to stay ahead of the curve there.

Jim Beattie

 

It's a big distraction and he hasn't even been here, ... We decided for the organization, for the players who are here that he not dress.

Jim Beattie

 

I think it would be very tough for him to come back in an Oriole uniform.

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You just see that in spite of all that, he's just not catching up to pitches that I know he would have hit in the past.

Jim Beattie

 

Defensively, it would be a big uplift. He plays hard. He bounces off walls. He doesn't leave anything out there.

Jim Beattie

 

Rather than push it, hopefully he'll be back at some point at the end of the year. This injury happened to him a couple of years ago [in Chicago] and it took a long time to heal. We're going to give him that time.

Jim Beattie

 

To be honest, I haven't always been a Red Sox fan, ... The first game I went to was when I was a player [with Yankees]. My dad hated to drive in Boston, so we never came down to see any games. And back then, there was usually only one game a week on TV, and it was usually the Cardinals. I can't tell you I'm a Red Sox fan through and through, but certainly I'm a guy who has admired what's gone on with the Red Sox.

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We would like to do something sooner rather than later, so we can get the maximum benefit. But, at this point, so many teams are still in it that they're not ready to part with players, to go down that road and go ahead with it. That's what the wild card has done. It's kept more teams in it.

Jim Beattie

 Benefit

We're talking to Raffy right now about that. Rather than comment on hearsay ? I don't think it's a proper thing for me to do ? we'll wait and see when we get into the office.

Jim Beattie

 

We're talking to Raffy right now about that, ... comment on hearsay.

Jim Beattie