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“We have other holes to fill on this team. We didn't want to add to them.”
Bill Bavasi
“unless there's a heck of a deal.”
“We made this move for depth.”
“We are trying to make a trade. There are possibilities that need to be pushed.”
“In order to make deals you have to create some excess. Some guys have options, some don't.”
“We can be working on a trade beyond opening day. It's not something we need to have done by that date.”
“The Dodgers took him back. He just needs more development time. We tried to trade to keep him, a cash deal, but they didn't want to do that.”
“We'll have the best left side in baseball, and that's not intuition. That's a fact.”
“He might throw seven one night, and we'll only charge him five, because they were just too easy. Some days, he's going to throw five, and he's going to get charged seven, because they're tough.”
“You talk to scouts and you keep hearing there is a real shortage of pitching. There's a real shortage of guys who can throw strikes. Pitching is that valuable.”
