Jim Thome
Jim Thome
James Howard "Jim" Thomeis a retired American baseball player who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball, from 1991 to 2012. He played for six different teams, most notably the Cleveland Indians during the 1990s and the Philadelphia Phillies in the early 2000s. A prolific power hitter, Thome hit 612 home runs during his career—the seventh-most all time—along with 2,328 hits, 1,699 runs batted in, and a .276 batting average. He was a member of five All-Star teams and won...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth27 August 1970
CountryUnited States of America
It's kind of hard to explain, but I hope they keep coming. You always try to get your swing locked in about a week, 10 days before the season starts. I've been able to do that. It seems like I've been able to square up a lot of pitches lately.
Being hurt last year and having those injuries, I think it has kind of put it all in perspective for me as to how much I really appreciate the game.
It's been nice here the last week to 10 days. It's worked out pretty well. The bottom line is you've got to work hard.
I don't see any significant difference (with the baseballs).
I've been out half the year, so today was a big day for me, getting out there, just seeing the pitching. The two balls I hit were good passes. For me, that's where I look. What kind of passes, how I feel in the box. Being out half the year, I was really happy with the first day, for sure.
It's a very close-knit group. I would say very, very similar (to the Indians), for sure.
That was probably one of the toughest decisions I ever had to make. But you make the decisions you make and you move on.
It puts a little closure on everything. You play to win the game. You don't play to hear boos.
With the emergence of Ryan Howard, who had a tremendous year, to be honest, I didn't really know what would happen,
When do you know it's time to say, 'OK, that's it?' That is the most difficult part of any decision like that because you don't want to throw the 'R' word out there. I've mentioned it a couple times, but not in the sense that I'm doing it. That word is very fragile. We'll see.
We all make mistakes and sometimes you say things and you really don't realize what you're saying at that moment.
I don't really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff.
Yeah, I think it will be good. Baseball, especially hitting, it's about repetition. It's about getting a lot of at-bats. That's what we'll do.
There are so many. We could sit here all night.