00:00If I'd have had to pick one guy off those clubs in those early years I was with the team that I felt one day had a chance to be a big league manager and have a life after playing, it would have been Bill Plummer.
00:11Everybody through the Mariner organization was impacted by Bill.
00:15Very level-headed, he was very self-assured, very approachable.
00:20When you're learning something new and you're around somebody that really loves to teach, you can see that being fed to you and it makes you better.
00:30He was capable of knowing how to approach every player to make him better.
00:35Whether you're a number one pick or you were a free agent signing from a small school somewhere, he wanted everybody to be treated the same way.
00:43When he came here all of a sudden, I think we as an organization in the minor league, we started winning.
00:48I think you can't cheat the process. He wasn't going to allow us to cheat it.
00:52I think for a guy like him, 50 years in the game, 15 years with us, your resume kind of speaks for itself.
00:58You're not going to find too many guys who would devote that much of their lives to doing what he did season after season.
01:05He leaves the game with his legacy being that every year for 53 years, I played, coached, and managed this game the way that it should be played.
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