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• ‟ People are always asking if I was mad at Houston. Honestly, I'm not. The truth of the matter is that when I was there, I didn't perform and they actually did me a favor by cutting me loose. They could have really held me there, not let me leave, bury me in Triple-A, put me behind some prospects and I would never even play.

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• ‟ I mean, I learned a lot from Houston. And you know what? It made me who I am and there's really no animosity there. In a sense, they did me a favor by allowing me to leave and going to play on another team.

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• ‟ That's why, to me, Spring Training is so hard, because every time you go up there, there's a new pitcher, and you have to come up with a new plan.

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• ‟ I think my failures in Houston is what made me who I am. I think it's given me that drive, that drive to keep working, because you never know what can happen type deal.

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• ‟ To me grinding out a good at-bat is pretty much fighting. And it's not trying to do too much with pitches, just finding a way to spoil a good pitcher's pitches, really.

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• ‟ My teammate Torii Hunter taught me how to lead and provide encouragement to the locker room.

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• ‟ Rodney Linares really stuck his neck out in Greenville to play me, because they had their prospects, guys who they had invested money in.

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• ‟ To me, I just play baseball, whether I have the contract or not.

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