Kevin Mcclatchy Quotes

When you look at building on Jason Bay and Jack Wilson, those are two pretty good players to start with as far as character. That's a nice aspect of it. But the key is performance and strengthening ourselves up the middle. - Kevin McClatchy

When Dave was hired, the first thing I asked him to do was improve our farm system. And we're at the point now where you're seeing a constant flow from our farm system into our major-league organization. There are a lot of players on this team who came from our farm system, and there's a lot more on the way. - Kevin McClatchy

We've progressed quite a bit since Dave took over (July 13, 2001). He's earned this extension. - Kevin McClatchy

We've been as good as anyone at financing our drafts since Dave took over. It's an important commitment, and I think you have to make that to your employees when you bring them in. I made this one to Dave. - Kevin McClatchy

We won't know -- sort of -- the most important information for about two days. - Kevin McClatchy

We have had no conversation with the Cincinnati Reds in regards to sharing a spring training facility in Sarasota. - Kevin McClatchy

We do have some talent here, but we can't let this talent take a step backward. I think he's the right guy to help us there. - Kevin McClatchy

We are beginning to see the results of those efforts, as we see more homegrown talent at the major-league level. - Kevin McClatchy

There was concern there. I'm disappointed in some of the lack of improvement. Dave wanted to make sure we had the right manager in place so these players could continue to improve. - Kevin McClatchy

There are certain players who I think haven't progressed, and we need those players to grow. Put on top of that that we have a slew of young players coming into this thing, and I think Dave just wanted to make the decision to get the best person we can to help these guys continue to develop and evolve. Some can make the argument we didn't do that this year. - Kevin McClatchy

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