Chris Shelton
Chris Shelton
Christopher Bob Sheltonis a former Major League Baseball first baseman who played for the Detroit Tigers, Texas Rangers, and Seattle Mariners over his 5-year major league career. Shelton is the cousin of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth26 June 1980
biggest learn length pace season understand
I think once you understand the length of the season and what happens, the biggest thing is you have to learn to pace yourself,
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It feels good and it's fun. The biggest thing is we got to go out there and make sure that we get wins. If I'm going out there looking for personal numbers, that's the wrong thing. We need wins, and today what happened got us a win.
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He didn't get it in as far as the first one. I just put a good swing on it. I can't quite tell you why it went out of the ballpark, but the pitch was in a good spot for me. It was in an area where I could hit it hard.
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My goal is never to go pole-to-pole. My goal is to stay in the middle of the field.
catch expecting grass skip
I was expecting it to skip off the grass faster. If I catch it, the inning is over.
played says
If he says we played bad, we played bad. He's the boss.
jim spring
Same Jim Leyland as he was in Spring Training.
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I don't drink Red Bull. I don't drink red pop. I do chew Big Red gum. I've tasted red pop and it wasn't for me.
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I heard that. As soon as he hit it, the place went silent so you could hear it for a little while.
chip hearing time
Hearing all the time I couldn't do this and couldn't do that put a chip on my shoulder.
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I wasn't surprised. I was more disappointed that they only protected 37 guys on their roster. All of my success is predicated on everybody telling me I can't do this or that. It's given me a chip on my shoulder to prove people wrong.
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Everyone thinks the clubhouse had problems last year. We didn't have problems. It was just frustration because we weren't playing well. That's when trouble starts.
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I don't feel like I'm doing anything differently. I couldn't explain what's going on other than I'm hitting the ball hard and they're going out of the ballpark. That's all I can tell you.
bit defense hurt
My defense is every bit as important as my offense, because I don't want to hurt the team.