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.

It's a rarity that doesn't happen much now with free agency. I'm very fortunate to be on the same team, finishing my seventh year.

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.

I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options.

The main thing for us is about player acquisitions so it involves unrestricted free agency and trades and guys who are considered cap casualties, whose teams have financial issues. No matter what it takes to acquire players, that's just the main thing; pro personnel is about player acquisitions for the most part.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.