We are going to show that the Dominican Republic has a great talent for baseball.

Randy Johnson from one side, Rivera from the other side. It’s hard to face them. The good thing is we got beat by good pitching.

a long time ago.

because we have to clean up this sport.

The Cubans all could be major leaguers, they all could be good major leaguers.

We would go out to eat, and I would never pay. They would buy me clothes. They tried to show me the major league way. I try to do the same thing for young players.

There will come a time when my children will start growing up and they’ll need more attention, but they understand that this is what I like to do.

I just found out right now,

I have been with the Orioles for two years and things haven’t gone in the direction that we were expecting. So I think the best thing will be a change of scenery.

I think the whole world is surprised to see that the USA lost. I mean, everybody knew that they had a good team . . . I think the whole world wants to see the...

Everything is over. Everything is straight. What I think right now is to think forward and [see] what you can do better this year to be in a better position. [The trade request], that’s never...