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To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.

Baseball has all the money.

If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.

I've pitched too many innings and pitched too many years - one game doesn't make or break my career.