My first thought was for him to go overseas, make $5 or $6 million over his career, then come home and do whatever he wants. But he chose the unconventional way, the NBDL, which is hard. But he did it.

The thing I'm most pleased with was I thought you saw an intensity level and an effort level that we haven't had for a couple of weeks. Second of all, there were things we prepared to do, and we executed them. ... It was some good stuff.

We focused on getting off to a fast start because coach thought we'd be cold because we'd all been home sleeping all day. It's just hard to get going on game days when there's no school so we wanted to make sure we were ready.

It's fitting I end my career here at home where it started,

Most definitely this home run that I hit was very important ? it was a milestone in my career... I felt that I was playing the World Series in the month of March.

During my career I did not stop to think what it meant to me, but now that I'm at home and watch videos, and watch my goals I become happy because of what I did