In the five months between Stuart Sternberg taking over until opening day, we want a complete transformation of the perception of the team to be progressive and family friendly. We want to build a tradition of winning.

That news, combined with Rocco's great work ethic and dedication to his rehabilitation, gave us the confidence to make this deal.

Our twin priorities are reconstituting the baseball department and getting new decision makers in there. Coming up with our own philosophy, which is going to be a blend of a lot of different philosophies on building a winning team, one that's going to be successful [not just] next year, but for years and years to come. And how we deploy our assets to make sure that happens.

Barring something unforeseen, at this point, we're probably going to be pretty quiet from now until the end of the World Series. It's still about getting the right guy. We don't want to rush the process and make the wrong decision. We have gathered more names to add to the list if we want to expand the search. With each conversation, you learn more about the game and more about what we're looking for in our next manager.

We don't want to restrict them.

There are lots of names that are being thrown out there. Some of the younger, more quantitative-focus guys, obviously. There are people that have communicated [their interest] directly and also through the press that may have more experience, and more traditional general managers. We're going to look at all of them and see which ones make sense to bring in here.