36 Quotes by Jim Beattie

I think the job will have fairly minimal involvement, ... I have flexibility. I'm in a situation where I can call clubs. It also gives me the option if I don't find anything else now to wait a year.

I think we've had a lot of distractions and I have no doubt in my mind that has affected our performance,

It is my understanding is that I think he will return to Baltimore, but I don't think he will be dressing out again,

I think it would be very tough for him to come back in an Oriole uniform.

You just see that in spite of all that, he's just not catching up to pitches that I know he would have hit in the past.

We have a few things we're exploring, not only there but in other areas. We've been doing that and will continue to do that. If we had been able to sign him, that would have shut down some of those things.

We would like to do something sooner rather than later, so we can get the maximum benefit. But, at this point, so many teams are still in it that they're not ready to part with players, to go down that road and go ahead with it. That's what the wild card has done. It's kept more teams in it.

We like Melvin a lot, ... But whether we proceed on that now or later we don't know.

We're talking to Raffy right now about that. Rather than comment on hearsay ? I don't think it's a proper thing for me to do ? we'll wait and see when we get into the office.