I had a pretty big sophomore year and I think my junior year I was struggling the first month or so because I was swinging at bad pitches. That was when I really started drawing...

I knew I was going home the whole way, [I] just couldn’t get it out of my glove quick enough. I probably would have had him out with a good throw. It would have been...

With the bases loaded and one out, I wanted to stay out of the double play. He got something up in the zone, and I took advantage of it.

I should have caught it. It was one of those plays where I knew it was going to take me off and I knew it was going to be a tag play, and I just...

I’m not going to go up there and swing at the pitches (the pitcher) wants me to. I’m going to go up there and swing at my pitches. When I get to two strikes, I’m...

I probably would have got him out with a good throw on a bang-bang play, but I couldn’t get a good grip on it. It’s one play, and I’m not really going to let it...

I’m just going to keep it simple, and keep the game plan I got here with.

I’ve still got a ways to go, but it’s a learning experience. You’re going to be put into situations you’ve never been put in before and you learn from them.

Last year I wasn’t comfortable when I got put into that situation. I had been comfortable wherever I’d gone until then.

It’s the last thing I’m worried about. Even if it doesn’t come, there are a lot more ways to score runs than hitting home runs. As long as you get big hits in big situations...

I just feel better and a little more comfortable. I got my feet wet last year.

It’s just one of those things. They’ve all been on different pitches.

This is really good. It gets the monkey off my back.

That was big for Claudio.

I still don’t feel 100 percent comfortable up there (at the plate), either. But when I do, I’ll know it and I’ll tell you.

Spring Training doesn’t go on the back of your baseball card, but this is one of my plans for the year … just get started hot in Spring Training and kind of carry it over...

It’s made me work a little bit harder because I want to stay on this time. I want to play every day. Last year I really didn’t prove I could.

I rushed it a little bit. I couldn’t get a good grip on it. It was a bang-bang play, a 50-50 shot. We had talked about it right before that if it was a ball...