Torii Hunter
Torii Hunter
Torii Kedar Hunteris an American former professional baseball center fielder and right fielder. He played in Major League Baseballfor the Minnesota Twins, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Detroit Tigers from 1997 through 2015. Hunter was a five-time All-Star, won nine consecutive Gold Glove Awards as a center fielder and was a two-time Silver Slugger Award winner...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth18 July 1975
CityPine Bluff, AR
CountryUnited States of America
I think about what his kids are going through more than anything. It's killing me right now. It's eating me up.
We'll try to clear up some things, kind of throw all that out of the way. I'm sure it's gone, but we're going to reiterate it. I don't think we have too many bad guys here.
I think Matt Lawton is going to surprise everyone. He's coming in there with something to prove.
I thought I had a shot at it.
I yell and scream when something good happens. I jog around on one leg, ... You watch them on TV and you have things you wanted to say to them and I haven't had a chance to talk to them face to face. I miss the clubhouse. They miss me, I hope.
We'll just have to wait and see what happens after Sunday. Maybe it's a countdown for Sunday, and then it'll only get better after that day.
When you're running a lot in the outfield or on the base paths in games, you're going to be sore. When I do more than I usually then it's sore but every time it gets sore, it's getting stronger.
When you're playing, it's a different feel. You have a different adrenaline, intensity, and you do things a little harder. When I get to Spring Training, that's going to be the big test.
To black athletes, he was an icon. Everybody looked up to him. It's Dave Winfield, Andre Dawson and Kirby Puckett for black athletes (to look up to). It's tough to swallow.
When we came up, we were always told go the opposite field no matter what. If you didn't go the opposite field when I first came up, you weren't going to play. It was said you had to force inside pitches to right field to stay in the lineup.
We're going to have to try to maintain and not get too far behind before we get hot. It's too early to be down.
He'd say: 'Get up there and go play this game. Forget about it. Just have fun and keep playing this game that I taught you.
He'd look at all of my box scores. If I went 4-for-4, he'd call me up and congratulate me. Or if I'd go 0-for-3, he'd call me up and get on to me.
He loved to talk to you. He helped the younger guys -- especially the younger black players.