Stan Kasten
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I’m really looking forward to spending time with a guy who, when I broke into baseball in the mid-1980s as a team president, there was a block of time when he was the best player in baseball ... So it’s exciting for me to work with a guy who had not just the physical skills, but the intellect and discipline to reach that level. It’s fun to see him translating it to managerial skills, which he’s obviously doing.
I started off telling how I would do things, that I'm a believer in player development and scouting ... He cut me off. He said, 'I don't care how you do it. Just do it.
I’m not going to get into that because Mark has 100 percent of the control of the votes, to the extent that there are votesMore quotes »
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Dodgers reach deal with Magic Johnson group
to a group that includes former Lakers star Magic Johnson and former Atlanta Braves and Washington Nationals President Stan Kasten .The agreement, revealed about five hours after Major League Baseball owners approved three finalists for the auction, is to Read more »
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Bill Shaikin: Sitting and watching is so passe
this year. It is almost as if you cannot say "Dodger Stadium" without "venerable" as the preceding adjective. This is what Stan Kasten, the new club president, has to say about Dodger Stadium: "It's a place that is superb for sitting in your seat for nine from Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (Georgia) Read more »
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Washington Nationals: 2012 MLB Draft Preview.
like to tell people we were unsure until about 11:58:42," then-team President Stan Kasten joked with reporters in August of 2009 after the Washington Nationals had signed '09 no.1 overall pick Stephen Strasburg to a 4-year/$15.1M dollar major league deal just from Federal Baseball Read more »
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Stan Kasten Looks Back at the Nationals And Forward With the LA Dodgers
Kasten does not shy away from a challenge. Actually, the word “shy” is never associated with Kasten. He came to Washington in 2006 to oversee both the management of a new baseball franchise and the building of the more than $600 million Nationals Park. He from The Washingtonian Read more »
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Report: Dodgers eye Winter Classic
president Stan Kasten was hoping to capitalize on rare Stanley Cup fever in Los Angeles with a pitch to bring the NHL Winter Classic game to baseball's biggest ballpark. Kasten, the former president of the Atlanta Thrashers, said Dodger Stadium was equipped from FOX Sports Read more »
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Report: Steinbrenners may explore sale of Yankees
baseball franchise valuation world shook when Magic Johnson, Stan Kasten & Co. purchased the Dodgers for $2 billion last month, and as expected, that sale has caught the Steinbrenners’ attention. Bill Madden and Michael O’Keeffe have heard from several sources from River Avenue Blues Read more »
