Jeff Bagwell
Jeff Bagwell
Jeffrey Robert Bagwellis an American former professional baseball first baseman and coach who spent his entire fifteen-year Major League Baseballplaying career with the Houston Astros. Originally, the Boston Red Sox selected him from the University of Hartford as a third baseman in the fourth round of the 1989 amateur draft. The Red Sox traded Bagwell to the Astros in 1990; the next season he made his MLB debut and was named the National LeagueRookie of the Year. The NL Most...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth27 May 1968
CityBoston, MA
Oh, yeah, he made those great plays. What would have been if those balls got through?
When I came back, we decided to give it a try and see how I would do. I told them: I can give you a good at bat and I think I can help the team. I can hit a home run now. I can get a base hit to right field. I'm just a lot stronger -- and I've been in these situations, runners in scoring position.
My at-bats were fine. I'm not so concerned with results with my hitting. I'm just concerned with ... does it affect my hitting when I go out there and throw, and so far it does not.
When you come in here, it's no different from anybody else, ... except when the game starts.
There's no other situation this would be OK. A normal guy, that wasn't going to play. It fit for our situation at the time. It's not something I would advocate. But Roger Clemens is a gift from the baseball gods. Anything he does is a gift. ... Craig (Biggio) and I have never had a ring. Our best opportunity to get one was to have Roger around. He tends to his obligations, his kids. And it's not like the man comes in here and pitches five innings and gives up six every day.
There's nothing really (doctors) can tell me. There are educated guesses of what's going on. I just need to rest a little bit.
There's nothing more we would like, ... than to get this city to the World Series.
It was a little sore to start with, but the more I went, the better it felt.
The team can't wait on me. They need to know now. I think I'll honestly know if I can or can't.
Towards the end of my career, I didn't want an opportunity like this to go by.
No problem, no question about it, ... but let's not get too far ahead of ourselves.
You don't want everyone to think you're soft or that it's an excuse. It's tough on younger players.
This is what we wanted to do, ... We wanted to be part of something special here in Houston.
This is what we talked about for years and years, ... Obviously, this is a dream come true for us.