"James Louis Beattie" is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He also served as the Montreal Expos' General manager (baseball)/General Manager from –, and was the Baltimore Orioles general manager with Mike Flanagan (baseball)/Mike Flanagan from –. As of , Beattie is serving as a professional scout in the Toronto Blue Jays organization. Beattie starred in baseball and basketball at South Portland High School in South Portland, Maine.

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If he comes back and is healthy, you try to give him a chance to go out this season healthy.

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We talked about his toe (and) rather than to keep trying to push it ... we decided to give it the time to get healthy again.

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Rather than push it, hopefully he'll be back at some point at the end of the year. This injury happened to him a couple of years ago [in Chicago] and it took a long time to heal. We're going to give him that time.

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I know this is a very tough time for him to go through.

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You understand when players can't play, ... And that's the toughest thing. That's not the Tim Byrdak we've seen in the past. He's been a very reliable arm in our bullpen. I think he handled it extremely well. We've seen the crispness of his stuff and when his arm has been tired, like it has been for the last couple days, you don't see it.

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You just see that in spite of all that, he's just not catching up to pitches that I know he would have hit in the past.

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I think we've had a lot of distractions and I have no doubt in my mind that has affected our performance.

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It's not something that's been brewing for a long time. The decision really was made in the last day that we should make the change. I talked to Maz this morning about making the change. Maz was very professional about it. He understood, and he thanked me. But it was one of those short meetings you have where there weren't a lot of questions you have to ask or answer.

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Defensively, it would be a big uplift. He plays hard. He bounces off walls. He doesn't leave anything out there.

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