It's pretty amazing to me to even be mentioned with players like that. |
It's strange for me, power-wise. It's not something I'm accustomed to. I'm not going up trying to hit home runs. I'm just trying to get good pitches to hit and they're going out of the park. It's surprising. |
July was a special month -- those don't come along all the time. You can't expect 40 hits a month the whole season, as much as you'd like to see it happen. |
Maybe when the season is over, I can realize what I did to start the season and that I did something special. Right now, it's about getting some wins. |
My defense is every bit as important as my offense, because I don't want to hurt the team. |
My goal is never to go pole-to-pole. My goal is to stay in the middle of the field. |
Our GM, Dave Dombrowski, called me and asked to report early and I was happy to do it. I'm really looking forward to getting started. |
People, almost daily, complain about our lack of computers with Internet. |
Same Jim Leyland as he was in Spring Training. |
Sometimes I had to remind him I was just his boy, his son, and not some big-leaguer, not anything special. |
That's why I was shaking my head as I walked away. |
The biggest part is to come out here and try to improve myself in every aspect of the game and try to get myself ready for the season. Obviously I want to come in here and make the team and we'll just go from there. |
The biggest thing is [that] we wanted to continue to go out and give ourselves chances. That's what we did. We gave ourselves opportunities to go out there and win. We got it within two, and we even had a chance there in the ninth. As long as we have that, we'll take it, and hopefully, they'll start turning our way. |
The first thing that went through my mind was to find Marcus [on the base paths] and don't pass him. |
The pitch before cut a little bit. With the way I took it, I don't know if he took that to mean I wasn't really looking for something in there, but he threw another one. |