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On if the Rangers were expecting a chance to match any offer to Josh Hamilton:
有没有期望有提出等值合约留下Josh Hamilton的机会?
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.
我想这有点误解 这里不是NFL受限FA可以用等值合约留人 我们没期望过有这样的机会
几天前我和Mike Moye的谈话 似乎他们发生什么大事前都会先通知我们 这是我们的期望
在星期三下午事情还是很平稳 我想天使是拿枪威胁他们要尽快做决定 而这可能是出于
不想给我们报导上说的提出最后合约的机会 但我们一直都没这样想过 Josh和经纪人
做他们认为应该做的 结局让我失望 但我理解他们的想法
On if the offseason has been a failure to this point:
到目前为止是不是失败的冬天?
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.
我对我们冬天的目标相当高 不过我们不会屈就次级选择 当好货下架后 剩下的人你或许会
说"我们就用原本阵容就好" 当然 我们想要Greinke 但没有成功 我们想签回Hamilton也没
有成功 除此之外还有很多乳摸 有些正确有些错误 除了Soria外 显然我们没什么大进补
挫折吗? 当然 但我们可以退一部说"我喜欢我们的阵容" 我喜欢核心和年轻人
这些完美吗? 不 有加强空间? 有 但接下来还有很多时间有机会