On 1130 WDFN’s ‘The Stony and Wojo Show’ they interviewed Jim Leyland today. When asked about Neifi Perez he had some interesting answers. Below is a rough non-”word for word” transcript from my co-worker Jamie:
- Question: “One of the things you heard alot last year was why are you playing Neifi so much?”
- Leyland: “Good question. He was terrible, He showed us nothing.”
- Leyland: “It was all my fault.”
- Leyland: “We were desperate for a guy who could play some infield positions.”
- Leyland: “He has to show us something this year.”
Ouch! Not that it is not uncalled for. I know that he is owed quite a bit of money but I don’t care for the last comment. Maybe they’ll just give him a shot at Spring Training then move him off the 40-man after that. We’ll see what happens but I am glad to see them being honest about the situation.
Hopefully they will podcast the interview, if so I’ll post a link.
[UPDATE] The Detroit Tiger Weblog has a more complete and correct transcript and links to the podcast of the interview. Good interview outside of the comments on Neifi as well.
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[…] Eric picked this up early on, and I saw the comments posted on MotownSports as well. Jim Leyland was interviewed today on the Stoney and Wojo show on WDFN. Mike Stone asked Jim Leyland, “what does Jim Leyland see in Neifi Perez that we as fans and media members don’t?” The response wasn’t the typical fluff you’d expect. Here is the transcribed version of what Leyland said. Well that’s a good question because he played terrible. And what had happened was we got reports from our scouts, and I had known him from the past. We were kind of in a panic situation. We had lost Polly and we needed someone who could come in and play second, and play shortstop as well because Carlos needed some time off. And up to this point it looks like we made a mistake. […]
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