I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
As a professional athlete, the small print says there could be a trade at some point in your career. Sometimes expected, sometimes not. You have to be able to handle that.
I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.
Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.
We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.
I've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good.
I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.
I didn't like how my NBA career ended because I wanted to go out on my own terms. But nobody tried to believe in me, that I could go back and play. I can still play at 39.
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