You don't play 162 games without facing some adversity during the course of the year.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.
I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.
With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.
Sixteen games, to me, is a long enough schedule for anybody. We're already concerning ourselves with head injuries and bodily harm to all of the professional athletes. Add to extra games to it, (and) you are just increasing those risks.
I have figured out it's not what you do on the field, it's how many games you play in.
The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
I think if you're consistent in this league, you'll win a lot of ball games.
Players today moan about the number of games, but when you're young, you can't play enough.
You play 20 games, you have one bad game, I think any team in this league will live with that.
You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.