Quality At-Bats Quotes

I'm going to consistently hit anywhere between .290 and .310. Anything above that, I'm catching breaks and finding holes.

What I need as a player is just to get at-bats, I think.

The hits and the misses. I just want to keep the at-bats solid.

I don't care about the home runs as much as just being consistent and RBIs.

You always want to get at-bats. You always want to contribute.

If I'm making consistent contact, even if they're outs or right at somebody, if I'm just making consistent contact, I'm happy.

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

It doesn't matter if we get a hit, a walk, hit by pitch; just trying to grind out at-bats.

I always try to have some good at-bats. Home runs come once in a while; that's good.

I think the thing with our team is during the postseason, our best games that we've played during the postseason, we strung at-bats together. It's not necessarily going up there trying to hit a home run, but it's trying to put up a good at-bat for the next guy.

I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.

Having a relentless lineup full of professional hitters works on so many levels. It works in terms of pure baseball reasons: if you get on base, you're going to score runs.

Sometimes we're going to take marginal pitches on the edges and get called out on strike, but we want to get a pitch that we can drive and a pitch we can do damage on. I think when you do that, you don't necessarily chase as much out of the zone.

My average against hitters is pretty good.

To me grinding out a good at-bat is pretty much fighting. And it's not trying to do too much with pitches, just finding a way to spoil a good pitcher's pitches, really.

You can't go up there trying to get hits. You can just go up there trying to put together at-bats and square the baseball up.

I personally know I can be a 1.000 OPS guy every year.