Trades Quotes

Zimmerman is a right-handed hitter and he may need a day off sometimes. Why not play a little third base? I'm a jack of all trades. - Marlon Anderson

You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents. - Earl Weaver

You used to need a high school degree to get a decent job, but now that's changed to a (post-secondary) degree or trades ticket. Perhaps we have to change our perspective and funding to meet that new requirement. - Dave Taylor

You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms. - Whitey Herzog

You make trades to try to get value for value. That's why we're in no rush to try to do anything. - Dan O'Dowd

You don't make money on trades. - Richard Bove

You don't have players on the team that can't play a style that's comfortable for the coach. Isiah and I understand that. He knows the guys I like in the league. It's not easy to make trades. My job is to find out what these guys can do and if they can do the things we think will help us be a good team for the long run. - Larry Brown

With Greenspan next week, if there is any sniff that maybe they are coming close to the end of their tightening, then maybe these flattening trades are not going to pay off as much as they have already, and that is why people are being a little more cautious about the flattening trades. - Kevin Logan

With all the young talented arms they have, Toronto has the ability to even make trades to fill in the key roles they're missing in the big leagues. - Dave LaRoche