127 Quotes by Jim Hendry

My focus is we won 79 games. That's a bad year. Anybody who sits in this seat and thinks that's acceptable, that's wrong. The urgency for me is to rectify coming off a bad year. If the White Sox hadn't won, we still have 79 in the win column and that's never going to be acceptable as long as I'm doing it, and we have to try like heck to get it fixed.

I really haven't set a time frame. It's something I'll focus on at the appropriate time that I feel comfortable.

Obviously, we both feel it's a great situation, a great city. We feel like we had a couple good years and had a hiccup last year.

None of us is anticipating anything significant, but it is his shoulder. It's hard to believe that somebody can throw 98 mph and have a serious arm problem. He hasn't been to Mark with any complaints at all since he went to the bullpen.

I really haven't set a time frame. I feel the same way about Dusty Baker as I did the day we signed him. For anyone to think it's a controversial issue, that would be wrong.

None of us, including Dr. Kremchek, are anticipating anything significant, but it is a shoulder.

He would probably pitch now if we wanted him to even though we're certainly not headed to the postseason. Why wait any longer? Let's do what's best for his recovery time no matter what the procedure involves.

He's still just a winner. He's probably the smartest guy I've ever met in the game.

Obviously it's a tragedy. Oscar helped a lot of young guys become better pitchers and better baseball players. He has a wonderful family, and Oscar will be missed.