Magglio Ordonez
Magglio Ordonez
Magglio José Ordóñez Delgadois a retired Venezuelan Major League Baseball right fielder. He played for the Chicago White Soxand Detroit Tigers. Ordóñez is 5 feet 11 inchestall and weighs 215 lb. Ordóñez retired from major league baseball as a Tiger on June 3, 2012 in a ceremony at Comerica Park prior to the afternoon game...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth28 January 1974
CityCaracas, Venezuela
cleared doctors everybody ready shape spring
The doctors have cleared me. I'll be ready to play by spring training. Everybody will see. I'm pain-free and in better shape than ever now after rehabbing so long.
half hard last played power speed strong worked
Last year, I played like half a machine. I didn't feel strong ... I worked really hard this off-season and got all my power and speed back.
commitment detroit good return sign spend team time
I want to spend time with my fans. This team made a big commitment to sign me here. I have to return that. I have to be here. I have to spend time with my teammates, with the fans, with all you guys. I need to do that. Detroit has a lot of good fans.
anybody ball guys hit strike
Anybody can hit in this lineup. We don't strike out that much, which is pretty good. We hit the ball everywhere. We're going to hit for average, but we have guys that can hit a long way.
focused good
He's unbelievable. We have a lot of good hitters, but he's even better when he's got two strikes. He's focused the same every time.
advantage ball bottom breaking good strikes threw throwing
Santana threw a lot of strikes and pitched a good game. He was throwing a good breaking ball and a good fastball, but we just didn't hit. That's the bottom line. We had chances, but we didn't take advantage of them.
classic far happen hard hit home pressure today work
I'm not that far away. Today I did much better. It was hard to work in the Classic because there was all this pressure on you to hit home runs, and that doesn't happen that way.
change
We need to change our attitude. We should be over .500.
manager
We had to respond. When you have a manager like that ...
million people watching
We've got 25 million people in Venezuela. At least 24 million are going to be watching the games.
habit losing winning
You have to get used to winning. Winning is a habit. Losing is a habit.