57 Quotes by Bill Bavasi

We're real excited about this. This is a big change in a real important position on our club. We're going from a position of weakness behind the plate to one of strength.

Would you blame him if he had interest in Felix Hernandez? I'm a guy who worked my tail off to get Carlos Delgado.

We were impressed that a young kid could make the jump from high-A to competing at the big-league level in Colorado. This was an opportunity for us to continue to build our inventory of young, major league-level pitching prospects.

We'll seek to pursue Ryan, but with a different financial approach. But you seldom see a guy say, 'Yeah, I'll come right back.' Yet, he likes it here, so we'll see.

We'll see if we can fine-tune it. Those are important spots, but we have no major trades (in the works).

We did not ever get to the point where we had to discuss that. From our point of view, it was important to get it done now to stay away from that question.

We really felt we had to get a better pitcher into our rotation, along with making our pitchers a little better. This is the first step toward that.

This provides us with a great opportunity to play in front of our fans in the Northwest before we begin the regular season.

Carl Everett is a clutch-hitting run producer with power. He's not afraid to compete and play hard between the white lines. ... When you talk to people in clubhouses who have played with this guy, you hear great things.