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Alex Anthopoulos

👤 Speaker
1112 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Baseball Isn’t Boring
Presser: Alex Anthopoulos Is Explaining His Signing (Iglesias) And Trade (Dubon)

You know, he's just a great fit for us.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Presser: Alex Anthopoulos Is Explaining His Signing (Iglesias) And Trade (Dubon)

Hold on a second.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Presser: Alex Anthopoulos Is Explaining His Signing (Iglesias) And Trade (Dubon)

I think the appeal with Dubon is he can play everywhere, right?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Presser: Alex Anthopoulos Is Explaining His Signing (Iglesias) And Trade (Dubon)

He's a Swiss Army.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Presser: Alex Anthopoulos Is Explaining His Signing (Iglesias) And Trade (Dubon)

He's a true Swiss Army knife.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Presser: Alex Anthopoulos Is Explaining His Signing (Iglesias) And Trade (Dubon)

He can play everywhere.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Presser: Alex Anthopoulos Is Explaining His Signing (Iglesias) And Trade (Dubon)

He protects you at a lot of spots.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Presser: Alex Anthopoulos Is Explaining His Signing (Iglesias) And Trade (Dubon)

And he's a good defender at almost every spot.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Presser: Alex Anthopoulos Is Explaining His Signing (Iglesias) And Trade (Dubon)

So high-energy guy, great teammate, has speed, bat the ball, great contact.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Presser: Alex Anthopoulos Is Explaining His Signing (Iglesias) And Trade (Dubon)

So, you know, I told him, I said, I don't know what your role is going to be yet.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Presser: Alex Anthopoulos Is Explaining His Signing (Iglesias) And Trade (Dubon)

Walt talked to him as well.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Presser: Alex Anthopoulos Is Explaining His Signing (Iglesias) And Trade (Dubon)

But the fact that we have the flexibility to do all kinds of things with him.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Presser: Alex Anthopoulos Is Explaining His Signing (Iglesias) And Trade (Dubon)

So he can play all over the infield, play all three outfield spots.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Presser: Alex Anthopoulos Is Explaining His Signing (Iglesias) And Trade (Dubon)

So we'll just see how the rest of the offseason goes.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Presser: Alex Anthopoulos Is Explaining His Signing (Iglesias) And Trade (Dubon)

But we know that in light of the injuries we've had and so on, he hits left-handers well.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Presser: Alex Anthopoulos Is Explaining His Signing (Iglesias) And Trade (Dubon)

There's just a lot of fits from just a player.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Presser: Alex Anthopoulos Is Explaining His Signing (Iglesias) And Trade (Dubon)

There's a lot of places to put him in and where he can impact us.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Presser: Alex Anthopoulos Is Explaining His Signing (Iglesias) And Trade (Dubon)

You know, we feel comfortable with him at shortstop.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Presser: Alex Anthopoulos Is Explaining His Signing (Iglesias) And Trade (Dubon)

I asked him tonight, how comfortable are you there?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Presser: Alex Anthopoulos Is Explaining His Signing (Iglesias) And Trade (Dubon)

And our underlying data on him at shortstop is good and strong.