│ Daily Clips May 20, 2014 Diamondbacks prospect Archie Bradley throwing again LOCAL after elbow injury La Russa ready to evaluate all aspects of D-backs By Arizona Sports By Steve Gilbert / MLB.com http://arizonasports.com/42/1733538/Diamondbacks- http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/news/article/ari/chief- prospect-Archie-Bradley-throwing-again-after-elbow-injury baseball-officer-tony-la-russa-ready-to-evaluate-all-aspects-of-d- backs?ymd=20140519&content_id=76044024&vkey=news_ari The Pulse: D-backs' hiring of Tony La Russa a 'home run' By Arizona Sports Pollock, Puig named NL Players of the Week http://arizonasports.com/42/1733522/The-Pulse-Dbacks- By Joey Nowak / MLB.com hiring-of-Tony-La-Russa-a-home-run http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/news/article/ari/d- backs-aj-pollock-dodgers-yasiel-puig-named-national-league- Culture drew Tony La Russa to Arizona Diamondbacks players-of-the- By Vince Marotta / Arizona Sports week?ymd=20140519&content_id=76038082&vkey=news_ari http://arizonasports.com/42/1733469/Culture-drew-Tony-La- Russa-to-Arizona-Diamondbacks New hire Tony La Russa begins evaluating state of Diamondbacks Likely cross one big name off list to be Diamondbacks next By Nick Piecoro / azcentral sports manager http://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/mlb/diamondbacks/2 By Eric Sorenson / Sports 360 AZ 014/05/19/new-hire-la-russa-begins-evaluating-state-d- http://www.sports360az.com/2014/05/likely-cross-one-big- backs/2259280/ name-list-dbacks-next-manager/ Major League Baseball players born in Arizona Dad makes great catch at Diamondbacks game By azcentral sports By Tyler Baldwin / AZ Family http://www.azcentral.com/picture- http://www.azfamily.com/news/Dad-makes-great-catch-at- gallery/sports/mlb/2014/05/19/major-league-baseball-players- Dbacks-game-259893111.html born-in-arizona/9142843/ NATIONAL La Russa on role with D-backs: 'I'm not a general Tipsheet: Experts applaud La Russa hiring manager' By Jeff Gordon / St. Louis Post-Dispatch By Tyler Lockman / FOX Sports Arizona http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/jeff- http://msn.foxsports.com/arizona/story/la-russa-on-role-with- gordon/tipsheet-experts-applaud-la-russa- d-backs-i-m-not-a-general-manager-051914 hiring/article_8bf3fda0-6ef7-5100-9287-fa2a814531a6.html Arizona Diamondbacks' CBO Tony La Russa clarifies his Tony La Russa stresses effort stance on Sabermetrics By AP / ESPN By Vince Marotta / Arizona Sports http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10951178/arizona- http://arizonasports.com/42/1733617/Arizona- diamondbacks-chief-baseball-officer-tony-la-russa-talks-players- Diamondbacks-CBO-Tony-La-Russa-clarifies-his-stance-on- effort Sabermetrics Preview: Diamondbacks at Cardinals Diamondbacks Minor League pitcher Argeny Hiciano By The Global Post banned 50 games http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/thomson- By Arizona Sports reuters/140520/preview-diamondbacks-at-cardinals http://arizonasports.com/42/1733580/Diamondbacks-Minor- League-pitcher-Argeny-Hiciano-banned-50-games La Russa, in new job, wants to balance effects of analytics By Rick Hummel / St. Louis Post-Dispatch Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder A.J. Pollock named http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/la- National League Co-Player of the Week russa-in-new-job-wants-to-balance-effects-of/article_9ad1495d- By Arizona Sports a01f-535b-8f2d-4aa821432753.html http://arizonasports.com/42/1733566/Arizona- Diamondbacks-outfielder-AJ-Pollock-named-National-League- Methodical, 'egoless' La Russa is just what doctor ordered CoPlayer-of-the-Week in desert By Jon Heyman / CBS Sports 1 │ http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/writer/jon- By Visalia Times-Delta heyman/24567109/methodical-egoless-la-russa-is-just-what- http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/sports/2014/05/20/sa doctor-ordered-in-desert n-jose-giants-top-rawhide-slugfest/9314561/ Could La Russa steal St. Louis' Secret Weapon? 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By Steve Gilbert / MLB.com http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/news/article/ari/chief- What you can bet your last dollar on is that La Russa will baseball-officer-tony-la-russa-ready-to-evaluate-all-aspects-of-d- thoroughly, and in painstaking detail, evaluate every area of the backs?ymd=20140519&content_id=76044024&vkey=news_ari D-backs' baseball operations department before deciding whether to retain Towers or make any other changes. When he woke up Saturday morning, Tony La Russa felt a churning in his stomach. That includes sitting down with farm director Mike Bell to go over the team's development plan for its prospects. It wasn't a sign of illness, but rather that the 69-year-old was back in the business of winning and losing baseball games. And though he might look at some Draft prospects, it's likely that he'll be more interested in talking with scouting director Ray La Russa was named to the newly created position of chief Montgomery about the thought process that goes into arranging baseball officer by the D-backs on Saturday. He will oversee the the team's Draft board. entire baseball operation and will be the one that decides the fates of general manager Kevin Towers and manager Kirk While the team is on a six-game road trip this week to St. Louis Gibson. and New York, La Russa will spend time watching Triple-A Reno and Class A Advanced Visalia play. Expect him to lay eyes "I've been around him a lot where his stomach does churn and on every player in the organization in the next couple of months it's always a good thing," Dodgers hitting coach Mark McGwire with trips planned to Class A South Bend and Double-A Mobile. said. La Russa's evaluation process will be fair and he realizes that it McGwire played for La Russa in Oakland and St. Louis, and it could lead to some -- particularly Towers and Gibson -- looking was La Russa who brought McGwire back into baseball when he over their shoulders a bit. If that's the case, though, so be it. added him to his coaching staff in 2010. "Anything that disturbs your comfort factor is good for you," La "It will be the first time I'm competing against him," McGwire Russa said. "For example, as a manager, you've got people said. "They've got a good one." looking over your shoulder -- owner, front office and everybody there. You've got fans, media, the players, their families. If you're La Russa retired from managing following the 2011 World kind of clueless and you just walk in there and nobody's Series, which was won in dramatic fashion by his Cardinals. watching, maybe you're missing a 'T' to cross or an 'I' to dot." Since that time he has been busy working as a special assistant to Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig. In other words, how people respond to having La Russa evaluate them is, well, part of the evaluation. It was challenging work and it kept him around the game that he loved, but there was something missing.