Andrew Friedman Team Quotations

Next year we are going to have an athletic team that scores runs, so we want to have some good young pitching on the way.

For us, it's not about how we break camp. It's the composition of the team through the season. We expect both those guys to be members of the team this season.

He understands what it takes to make a team successful.

Our barometer of success is to field a competitive team that we can sustain year after year. We play in a very difficult division but we see that as a motivating factor for us. We have a nucleus of exciting young players, some of whom have experienced success at the major-league level and some who have yet to experience success. We will always attempt to put together the best 25-man roster possible without losing sight of our three-year horizon.

We're keeping an eye on improving this team at all times.

With these young players and the different paces of their maturation processes and with the success we enjoyed in the second half last season, anything can happen. I think there will be improvement over last year and that this will be a very exciting team to watch; the core of that team we expect to have significant continuity for seasons to come.

We think that we're going to become intimately involved with the arbitration process given the nature of how young our roster is. The intent of the hearing is to solve differences that can't be resolved through negotiations. It's not ideal for the team or the player, but sometimes it's necessary.

We just want to continue the development path. Both of them are tremendous young players. They are going to be a big part of this team in the future.