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I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.
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But I sense a fair amount of experience in the room, along with the youth.
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I'm not the No. 1 starter. I'm not the guy that's going to carry the staff for four months out of the season, but I can contribute in a lot of ways. And to me I'm very proud of that.
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I let Guerrero get his arms extended, and while that's usually a mistake to any power hitter, it isn't necessarily so to him. He has no strike zone. He'll hit the ball below the zone, the ball away, and he'll cheat inside and put good wood on it. So you choose your poison.
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Rest is obviously a key in the offseason.
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He can hit the ball out of the park anywhere, probably out of the Grand Canyon.
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Sometimes you've got to put up more zeroes than the other team. Tonight I wasn't able to do that.
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Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly.
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The balls they hit were elevated in the (strike) zone. It was a mater of making the adjustments to keep the ball down and get some ground balls.
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I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.
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I had to get back in the count, so I came up a bit and he hit it well. But he could as easily have popped it up.
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That was a heads-up play. I was behind him (backing up), and he saw the throw didn't have enough to get the runner. So he ran up where he could get the ball cleanly and make the throw. That made it two outs and no on, instead of (the potential for) an add-on run. The damage was over.
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I was throwing mostly fastballs and had pretty good location. I was able to keep the ball down and work quickly.
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Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, which people don't seem to be shy about expressing.
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It almost felt like it was my dad back there. My dad was the same way in the driveway.
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The key thing to do with them is keep the rabbits off the bases.
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This will be a team that could possibly have the ability to surprise some people.
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I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.
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He does have a little bit to learn about pitching, learning about hitters, situations in games, things like that. That will come. Anybody at the age of 19 is going to be in that same situation. The things that he has that the average 19-year-old, sometimes 25-year-old guys don't have. And that's what's going to carry him.
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It was a dream come true to be drafted by a pro team and have the opportunity to play.