Dan Uggla
Dan Uggla
Daniel Cooley Ugglais an American professional baseball second baseman who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseballfor the Florida Marlins, Atlanta Braves, San Francisco Giants and Washington Nationals. In 2010, Uggla won the Silver Slugger Award at second base...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth11 March 1980
CityLouisville, KY
ball couple holding playing runner trying
We started off playing out butts off. Then a couple things happen, like me trying to do too much. When a ball is deflected like that, you don't know where the runner is, and you're better off holding it.
couple fall stay-positive
The first couple months, I was hitting the ball hard but had some awful, awful luck. You stay positive, keep grinding out some at-bats, get a couple to fall through, get a little confidence going and keep going from there.
running team trying
Any way I can produce runs and keep runs off the board for the other team, that's what I'm going to try to do.
hitting defense very-good
If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.
real opportunity player
Every player feels like they can play at this level. Not every player gets an opportunity. I was fortunate to get an opportunity. Everything's kind of worked out real well.
thinking trouble boxes
When I start thinking in the batter's box, that's when I get into trouble.
play hitting littles
All the stuff about who's hitting behind you and who's hitting in front of you-it plays a little bit of a part. But you can't just base your approach off that because you'll end up getting beat in the end.
hard-work live-your-life way
If you live your life the right way, you work hard, you go about things the right way, eventually something good's going to come of it.
bomb college gotten hit life
The only hit I've gotten off him my whole life was a bomb in college and a bomb today.