Does the familiarity of a Ron Johnson help his candidacy?
He mentioned in his interview, out of the 40 guys on our 40-man roster, he’s had 22 of them the last couple years. Sure it’s helpful. We really wanted to hire from within. I’ve been here long enough now. We need to promote from within when we can. There are a lot of good candidates outside of the organization. Their names came up. I think it’s important for us to promote from within, and we’re certainly going to do that. Do you believe the Gold Glove reflects the most deserving defensive players or is it a popularity contest and/or something driven by offensive performance? Specifically, how did you view Derek Jeter winning the Gold Glove versus Elvis Andrus. I actually think that’s a pretty good point you make. I’m probably of the mindset that Jeter had a very good year defensively. I really do think he did. Elvis Andrus had a spectacular year. I think we tried as a staff to give it some time. We didn’t just want to have the ballots show up and write in some names. There have been som
