I'm going to be stubborn and stay on the ball. I was more of a pull hitter (last year). It's not the way I had approached things in the first 10 years, so I don't know why in my 11th and 12th years I started changing. ... Not this spring.

Our lineup's been thin all year, ... We played without three guys for three or four out of six months. We'll be all right.

He's a dead-pull hitter. Leave it to me to get him to go the other way with what I throw.

You can't be stubborn. You can't try to run the ball at all costs.

He's using the whole field. Last year he was primarily pull -- when he did things he was pulling the ball. He made a conscious effort to go back to using the whole field like he did when he first got here. He's a natural. He's a gifted athlete.

He's a contact hitter. He can run the ball down in the outfield. He's got a little speed.