Tim Purpura Quotes


You have to have parameters you're comfortable working with. We have those parameters. We know where we feel we can take our budget, beyond what it is already and do what we need to do to still sustain the club and not put ourselves too much into a financial hole. - Tim Purpura


You fans have been so important to us and everything we've done this year... We love you, fans. - Tim Purpura


You close the roof, you get a lot of continuity with the conditions. You don't have issues that come up that could affect you. There's a comfort level that our players have. We play with it closed most of the time, anyway. Players are creatures of habit -- you don't want to start changing things dramatically once you get in the playoffs. - Tim Purpura


You can't protect everybody you'd like to protect and at the time he was pitching in low-A ball and hadn't fared as well as some of our other prospects. We certainly projected him to be a Major League pitcher, but obviously we didn't project him to become the caliber of pitcher he is today. - Tim Purpura


You can't force a guy to stay there. But also, you want to try to do what's in the best interests of the club. You need a guy who can hit the ball out of the ballpark, not necessarily a guy who can hit a single. But it's a tough deal, being in the Minor Leagues, facing young guys that are out to get you. - Tim Purpura


Yesterday he came to the ballpark and felt very, very good. Better than expected. He let it loose in all of his at-bats. - Tim Purpura


Without the Express players we have now, there's no way we'd be where we are now... To me, your Triple-A and Double-A teams are your research and development. They're they guys who hopefully sustain your organization. - Tim Purpura


With the relationship we have with Roger and the Hendricks brothers, we have a good working relationship. Roger will be a part of this organization when his career is over. It's all positive. The situation is well-known. We don't have to put on any campaign for Roger to come back. He knows what we're all about. He's very comfortable in this environment and we have a chance to win. - Tim Purpura


When you've been teammates that long, you're going to go through some ups and downs. They've gone through some down times. - Tim Purpura


When you sign a player, you hope he gets to the big leagues with you, but if not, you hope he gets to the big leagues with someone else. - Tim Purpura


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