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On if the Rangers were expecting a chance to match any offer to Josh Hamilton:
有沒有期望有提出等值合約留下Josh Hamilton的機會?
That’s a good question because there has been some misunderstanding about
that, and that is where I was a little bit disappointed. At no point did I
ever expect the chance to match. This isn’t the NFL with restricted free
agency and an offer sheet and we get a chance to match it. That was never my
expectation. … My conversations with Mike Moye, as recently as a few days
ago, were just that nothing was going to happen without them circling back
with us, and that was still our expectation. I literally had spoken to Mike
on Wednesday afternoon and was still expecting things were going to move
along. I think what happened was that the Angels more or less put a gun to
his head and gave him a really quick deadline maybe because of the reports
that we had the right to match and they weren’t going to give that to us.
But that was not accurate. We never expected the right to match. Mike and
Josh did what they felt they needed to do. It was disappointing to me, but at
the end of the day, I understand the position they were in.
我想這有點誤解 這裡不是NFL受限FA可以用等值合約留人 我們沒期望過有這樣的機會
幾天前我和Mike Moye的談話 似乎他們發生什麼大事前都會先通知我們 這是我們的期望
在星期三下午事情還是很平穩 我想天使是拿槍威脅他們要盡快做決定 而這可能是出於
不想給我們報導上說的提出最後合約的機會 但我們一直都沒這樣想過 Josh和經紀人
做他們認為應該做的 結局讓我失望 但我理解他們的想法
On if the offseason has been a failure to this point:
到目前為止是不是失敗的冬天?
Listen, I think we set our goals pretty high this winter. I don’t believe in
settling. If you don’t get the guy you want, you don’t just naturally move
down the list until you get one that you do. The bottom line is there are
guys that you want and guys that, at some point, you just draw a line and
say, ‘I’d rather just go with our own.’ But no doubt, we were in on
Greinke. We would’ve liked to have had him, but it didn’t work out. We were
interested in bringing Josh back, didn’t work out. But beyond that, we’re
involved in a lot of stuff, some of which was rumored and was accurate, some
of which wasn’t. Outside of Soria, obviously, we haven’t made any sort of
real impact acquisitions so far. Is there some frustration? Sure. We’re
competitors too, and this is the time of year we try to do what we do. But we
’ve got to step back and say, ‘We genuinely like our team.’ I like the
core, I like some of the young players we’re going to add in. Is it perfect?
No. Are there areas to upgrade? Yeah. But there’s also still opportunities
to do that this winter, this spring, this season. And I’m excited about
watching some of these guys play and seeing where we go. I think there’s
still time for us to add some pieces. I don’t know that there’s going to be
the marquee press conference with a big splash, but I’m not sure if that
what we really need, either.
我對我們冬天的目標相當高 不過我們不會屈就次級選擇 當好貨下架後 剩下的人你或許會
說"我們就用原本陣容就好" 當然 我們想要Greinke 但沒有成功 我們想簽回Hamilton也沒
有成功 除此之外還有很多乳摸 有些正確有些錯誤 除了Soria外 顯然我們沒什麼大進補
挫折嗎? 當然 但我們可以退一部說"我喜歡我們的陣容" 我喜歡核心和年輕人
這些完美嗎? 不 有加強空間? 有 但接下來還有很多時間有機會