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Alex Anthopoulos

👤 Speaker
459 total appearances

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

But, look, I think having the anchor in the bullpen –

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

it just sets things up.

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

It helps the manager.

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

You know, again, I, you know, I'm sure Walt would agree with that.

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

I don't want to speak for him, but having set up and knowing that your ninth inning is settled and then you can build around that behind that and so on.

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

And obviously we've got Dylan Lee who's back and a lot of other guys, but you know, we still have other work to do.

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

I think I mentioned this at the GM meetings, you know, we need a lot of relievers.

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

So,

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

Our plan is not to just get one reliever and be done.

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

I mean, we're going to need to do more.

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

How that's going to present itself, who, what, when, where, I don't know yet.

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

But closer is definitely the anchor, and you definitely want to get that solved.

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

Yeah, I think, look, ideally you'd love to have someone that can play, you know, when you have center field and shortstop, that's hard to find guys that can play both positions like that, right?

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

Those are two premium spots.

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

Every team needs a backup center fielder.

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

Every team needs a starting shortstop or a backup shortstop.

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

Those are just harder positions to find.

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

So when one player can fill both, that has value.

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

So were we looking for that?

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

I mean, I guess you'd always like to have that, right?