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Obviously, I have to do what's best for me and my family; I've got to put that first. But I definitely want to be on a team that's in contention.
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All through Miami, the guys who grew up with me hitting at the place I hit, they all call me Flaco. Nobody calls me J.D. It's like, 'Hey, Flaco.'
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I've always been hungry, but when people ask what drives you - 'How do you stay so driven throughout this whole thing?' - you just don't stop. It's every single day. The people that know me and the people that love me and are in my life see it.
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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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I think that's one of the things you start learning from being hot and playing every day at the beginning, you know. The league, they made their adjustments and their change to you, the way they pitch you, the way they attack you, and just learning and learning from that and making the adjustments the very next at bat or the very next pitch.
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You know, this league is all about adjustments, and the one thing you kinda notice when you're playing every day is how teams make adjustments. Once you start having a little bit of success, they are going to make their adjustment.
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Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.
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I think the one thing I have learned the most from all the veteran guys is kinda like not to dwell on a loss or a bad day.
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We want the fans to be in it, because when they're in it, it makes you kind of live up to it.
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When you're up there and everything feels good and you're competing against the pitcher and the pitcher strikes you out, you're like, 'OK, yeah, I struck out, but that's OK.'
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Obviously, this is a job, it's a grind, but it's what you love to do. It's your passion.
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I get to play what I dreamed about since I was a kid. So, on that end, I love it. But I also take pride in it.
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When I'm at my best, I'm ready to hit from pitch one. When I go up there and I'm passive, I'm not as successful.
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That's one thing I learned from watching great hitters hit. A lot of hitters, they're ready to hit from pitch one.
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If I'm ready to hit early, if I get fooled, then whatever. I've still got two more strikes.
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You have to go up there, and it's you vs. the pitcher. No one's there to help you. That's how I go about it.
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Whoever's hitting in front of you or behind you is going to determine how you get pitched, but there's nothing you can do.
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Sometimes you just need a spark, and then boom, boom, boom, now the bats come alive.
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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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Obviously, I'm sad to leave Houston. I love the fans and players and everyone here.
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Let's say I have a new respect for guys who come off the bench every day. That's not easy to do.
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Control what I can control. Study the pitchers, work hard, put the work in. That's all I can control.
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I want to be on a team that's got a chance. That's what's fun. That's what you play the game for.
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We're all not going to agree on the same things, but that's what makes this country so great.
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I stand by the Constitution and I stand by the Second Amendment and it's something that I take pride in. It's something that I'll back up.
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I grew up in Miami watching baseball down there, so you could see it from one extreme to the next. It was like, 'Well, this is what baseball is about.'
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I told Pedro this story: I used to wear a freakin' Pedro Martinez jersey because it had 'Martinez' on the back.
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My whole life, I've felt like I've always had to prove myself. It's never been easy, as easy as others who are in my position have had it.
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I'm a very analytical guy, I like to study my swing, I like to study what my back foot is doing, my elbow, whatever it might be, and there's a lot of guys nowadays that are like that. That's the trend of the game, that's the way the game has gone.
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You can't say it's good when guys out there are signing minor league deals and they would be big league players on 80 percent of the teams, but why would a team sign a player when you can pay dirt, and they're not going to win anyway?
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Losing is incentivized now. You have 80 percent of the teams trying to lose.
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There aren't too many Mookie Betts, Mike Trouts or Bryce Harpers out there to be grabbed. Those players only come around once every 10 years.
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