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 found a place in Boston, a home in Boston, and I'm pretty happy here.
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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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I always talk about it like I'm a hitter first and if I'm doing things right and my body's in the right place, I drive the baseball.
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Losing is incentivized now. You have 80 percent of the teams trying to lose.
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I've always loved hitting, and even as a kid, I always hit.
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Everything happens for a reason.
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Whenever you see me and I'm hitting ground ball after ground ball, you know I'm not feeling right.
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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.'