Jerry Dipoto
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Frankly, I think it's one of the coolest things that I've seen in my baseball career
And it's not just his ability to spin a cutter ... It's who he is as a person, it's his work ethic, it's how he carries himself, it's the fact he's probably still the best closer in the league and he's going to walk away because that's what his heart is telling him to do. I think that's remarkable.
Quite frankly, just having had a chance to experience it, I think it's one of the coolest things I've seen in baseball, that a player who's accomplished what he's accomplished would take the time to recognize people that don't get recognized -- and that's what he's doingMore quotes »
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Dipoto not immune to Mariano's legend
Mariano Rivera laughs at a story during a Q&A with Angels employees. ANAHEIM -- As part of the farewell tour to his illustrious career, iconic Yankees closer Mariano Rivera has established a tradition on the road: Once in every opponents' ballpark, usual from MLB.com Read more »
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How the Angels Spent $450M and Became One of the Worst Teams in Baseball
The Los Angeles Angels are a mess. Their 28-38 record is the second-worst in the American League, and the Texas Rangers and Oakland A's are miles ahead of them in the AL West. But the Angels aren't just any mess. They're the kind of mess that invites rub from Bleacher Report Read more »
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AL West Notes: Ramirez, Iwakuma, Astros, Angels
The latest out of the AL West... Erasmo Ramirez has hurled 15 consecutive scoreless innings in Triple-A Tacoma, and Dave Cameron of the U.S.S. Mariner writes that it's time for him to be recalled and inserted back into the Mariners' rotation. However, he from MLB Trade Rumors Read more »
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Dodgers feeling a draft after selecting Minnesota natives with first two picks
percent) pitched in a major-league game. Work your way north through Puerto Rico (27.8 percent), Cuba (45.1) and the United States (47.6) and a general trend emerges. The farther north you go, the more pitchers you see. The Dodgers' first two picks in th from San Bernardino County Sun Read more »
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Not even Jerry DiPoto could have predicted Patrick Corbin's 2013
Three years ago this July, Jerry Dipoto had been Interim General Manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks for 25 days when he finally found a way to divest his team of Dan Haren. It was nothing personal. Arizona was well on its way to 65 wins in 2010 and had from USA Today Read more »
