When you're running a lot in the outfield or on the base paths in games, you're going to be sore. When I do more than I usually then it's sore but every time it gets sore, it's getting stronger. |
You can't even compare that team to this one. |
You could tell he was nervous. |
You name it, I've got it. Some players have to be at 100 percent [to play], but I don't. |
[Hunter is the fearless face of the fearless Twins, who were a fashionable preseason pick to win the World Series but are at this moment baseball's forgotten championship contender. Though they're four games back of the legit White Sox, the Twins are stealthily on pace to have their finest season in four decades. And the boisterous Hunter has led the Twins' charge: In June, during which Minnesota has won six of seven games, the center fielder is batting .552 with a 1.034 slugging percentage and is on pace to have the finest all-around season of his career despite bone chips in his elbow, a separated joint in his left shoulder, and a broken toe.] You name it, I've got it, ... Some players have to be at 100 percent [to play], but I don't. |
[Of all the storylines, none is more compelling than the rise of the Indians. They have arrived much like the young, brash A's did five years ago. The Indians will be a force long after 2005.] They've got some great young talent, guys who are ready to win now, ... No one around the league is surprised they're in [the playoff hunt]. What's scary is that they're just going to get better over the next few years. |