Anthony Heron

It's helped him, as it helps many catchers, be a good major league manager.

And, you know, obviously you need some talent on the roster, and the Angels are trying to find their way through with a roster that people like.

don't have them projected to win very many games.

But I think Kurt Suzuki has fit in pretty naturally into the managerial role.

And I think on the other side of that, in a smart way, the Angels have also flanked him on each side with a couple of veterans.

John Gibbons is their bench coach, a guy who's managed in the big leagues and has been around forever.

and Mike Maddox, who's been a pitching coach now for almost 25 years, is in there as well.

So I think they have good people around them.

Brady Anderson has come back to baseball as the hitting coach, and the Angels have offered a much more patient approach in the first few games of the season than what we saw last year.

So I think that it's a good staff, and for a first-year manager, Kurt Suzuki has the people around him that can help him succeed.

Yeah, I think they should, and I think the players are going to push for that.

It sounds like they're pretty interested.

I mean, you can make an argument that the Team USA guys might be more interested in the Olympics than they have been in the World Baseball Classic.

I think it's a smaller tournament.

It won't be the full-sized, all the countries involved.

I think six teams are allowed in the Olympics tournament.

So it'll be a bit smaller, and I think that it will...

for the first time having major leaguers in it will bring that continued interest that you're talking about internationally I mean what's a better international event than the Olympics for these guys to be a part of and you know we saw it over well over 30 years ago now when the NBA started to use the dream team and and use their players in the Olympics and how that made the NBA a much more global sport and baseball has the same goals right now so

I think it's a no-brainer.

I think the commissioner wants it.