Mark Teixeira
Mark Teixeira
Mark Charles Teixeirais an American Major League Baseball first baseman for the New York Yankees. Before playing in the MLB, he played college baseball at Georgia Tech, where in 2001 he won the Dick Howser Trophy as the national collegiate baseball player of the year...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth11 April 1980
CityAnnapolis, MD
CountryUnited States of America
boost five huge pitch
He's our ace. For him to be back is a huge boost for us. Unfortunately, he can only pitch one out of every five days.
chance game gives great half italian melting name states united
It celebrates the whole world and gives us a chance to show the world how great the game is. I'm half Italian and my name is Portuguese. The great thing about this is the United States is the melting pot.
agent sit talk three
I have no idea what will happen. It's something my agent and I will sit down and talk about. I know I'm here for three more years.
course goes good guy happen popular starter tough trade
It's tough when your No. 2 starter goes down, and you trade the most popular guy in the clubhouse. A lot of things happen over the course of the year. Hopefully, good things will happen.
careers guys list named nice time
Any time you get named in a list like that, it's very humbling, ... To see the careers those guys have had and the career that Pujols is going to have ... it's nice to be part of that group.
case people time
We are still young, but at the same time we are experienced. Most people think of young as being inexperienced, and that's not the case here.
deep full pitching staff
We'll have All-Stars two deep in the lineup, and then we'll also have a pitching staff full of All-Stars.
team turn
We still feel like this is a team that can compete. Unfortunately, this was our start, and we've got to turn it around.
case four playing
We've got four All-Stars in there. You can make a case for all of them. They're all playing really well.
anytime definitely played
We definitely could have played better. Anytime you lose, there are things you could have done better.
again against best capitalize colon league pitchers pitching
We did have some opportunities because of the errors. We did capitalize on one of them, but their pitching was just too good. Colon is one of the best pitchers in the league and he showed that again against us.
christian son unconditional-love
You can never completely get it - being a Christian - but I think I really got it when my first son was born in 2006. I just realized the love that God has for all of us. It was seeing my son born and knowing the unconditional love that I have for him.
couple successful thinking
One thing that I've realized is that you're never going to be 100 percent successful. You're always going to be let down. When you have God in your life and you follow Christ, you're never going to be let down. Every time that you fail, He's there to pick you right back up. Every time you think the world's going to end because you had a couple of bad games, God's there to remind you that's not what it's all about.
cake baltimore crabs
Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.