As soon as you get traded, you kind of start thinking where you're going to live, your family, you have to pack.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
Whenever you get traded out and you are playing for a winning team, it's always good.
In the beginning, when I signed with Miami, they said they were never gonna trade me, and then, after first year, boom, they traded me to Toronto.
I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.
No matter where I go, I want to carry my family.
After the first time I got traded - I was in the bullpen warming up for a game in Double A, and I got called back in and got traded - that was probably the, like, most crazy it could be. And once I got traded, the next time it got a little easier, and I got traded the next time - it's just part of it.
I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.
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.
In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
One thing I know in baseball is you should never be comfortable where you are. It doesn't matter who you are. It's a business. If I got traded tomorrow, no hard feelings; it's a business.
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