Pat Gillick
FameRank: 4

"As general manager"

*Toronto Blue Jays (–)

*Baltimore Orioles (–)

*Seattle Mariners (–)

*Philadelphia Phillies (–)

"As president"

*Philadelphia Phillies (–)

/ highlights =

*3× World Series champion (, , )

*Sporting News Sportsman of the Year (1993)

*Toronto Blue Jays Level of Excellence

/ hofdate = Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 2011/2011

/ hofvote = Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 2011/81.2% (13 of 16)

/ hofmethod = Expansion Era Committee

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"Lawrence Patrick David Gillick" (born August 22, 1937) is an United States/American professional baseball executive, currently serving as the President of the Philadelphia Phillies organization. He was the General manager (baseball)/General Manager of four Major League Baseball (MLB) teams: the Toronto Blue Jays (1978–1994), Baltimore Orioles (1996–1998), Seattle Mariners (2000–2003), and Phillies (2006–2008). He guided the Blue Jays to World Series championships in 1992 and 1993, and later with the Phillies in 2008.

Earlier in his life, Gillick was involved in Boy Scouts of America/Boy Scouts as well as playing baseball. He won a national championship in college while playing for the University of Southern California (USC).

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Wait until the championship season gets going and judge for yourselves.

No, I don't think it's a problem at all. A lot of ballparks these days see home runs fly out of them. I don't think the ballpark will be a problem in luring players here. If anything, I've heard a lot of comments about what a beautiful ballpark it is.

I'm so excited for Ryan. You certainly get only one opportunity for this honor. I'm so happy that he was selected.

I don't think you can be too impulsive. At the right point, when you see a window open, then you gotta move. But until that window opens, don't try to open it yourself.

We had a very thorough examination. Unless something unforeseen occurs, we think he'll be healthy and ready to perform the entire 2006 season.

I like the pitchers we have in Jon Lieber and Brett Myers, but I think we still need a real power type of pitcher who can stop the bleeding or stop a losing streak. Is there someone out there? Sure, there are pitchers out there, but it's about what you need to give up to get. I'm talking to clubs all the time and evaluating this every day.

The goal was to improve our pitching. Right now, we're not where we want to be. We're not satisfied with where we are at the moment.

Arthur helps strengthen our bullpen, which is one of the areas we felt needed to be addressed.

Something might not go exactly the way other teams wanted, either [in the coming weeks]. That might refocus things on something we talked about. We still might [make a trade]. We'll see.