Your first responsibility is to the organization, to teach and prepare players to get to the big leagues and have them ready when they get there, but everyone in the minors wants to be in the majors.
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If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.
Any time you're in the coaching business or managing in the minor leagues, when you see a player who has made it to the major leagues, you get a thrill out of that.
When you're a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that dream, that's what it's all about.
I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.
I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.
Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.
At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.
Once you make the majors, it's never a great feeling to go back to the minors - no matter what the circumstances.
Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.
If you go back to the minors, you have to start swinging and hitting the ball again. I've been in the minors since the '70s semipros, let's put it that way.
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