Whenever we play the Twins, Torii Hunter has a major impact on defense. He tells the left fielder and the right fielder to take the day off and he covers the whole outfield.
I was a good fielder in the gully in my college days. But in the outfield, I was not such a good fielder.
I know I'm the world's worst fielder, but who gets paid for fielding? There isn't a great fielder in baseball getting the kind of dough I get paid for hitting.
Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more
The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it.
Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.
If I'm going to wind up playing left, I want to be the best left fielder in the game. I'll work to be that.
One minute you're starting left fielder, hitting home runs; the next, it's career over. I was 20.
Now you have kids that say, 'I wanna be Torii Hunter one day.' Man, I love that.
My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. he was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up to bat
The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.
I play baseball - 'The Show' - a lot. I'm pretty good at that. I go 'Road to the Show,' where you build your own player. I build myself when I used to play as a center fielder. Power, speed, stealing bases.
I was a center fielder, and I played shortstop.
At the end of the day, nobody drops a catch on purpose, and even the fielder gets frustrated. As a bowler, when a few catches are dropped, yeah, that is frustrating. But I think, ultimately, it's part of the game.
Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.
We all know just bowling won't do in modern international cricket, and we have to contribute with the bat and as a fielder, too.
I want to develop every base of my game-stealing bases, hitting, being a better fielder.