An older club tends to get it together later than a young club. Just like spring training. Young guys, two weeks, they're ready to go. Where the older guys, it takes them longer to get their timing.
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I'm not saying that. I'm just saying I haven't really thought about it. Like I told you in Spring Training, I haven't changed one bit. My whole thing is my team plays well and wins, and everything will take care of itself. Money is important to everybody, but you can't have money as your primary focus. Your primary focus has got to be winning. You win and everything else follows after that. Just do your job.
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You've just got to play smart when something is wrong. You still play hard. What you don't want to happen is altering his swing and creating bad habits. As far as how many at-bats down here, it depends on how he feels.
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You're playing against guys who are younger than you, so you can set them up. You get to a certain point in your career and you almost know what's coming. You learn to trust your feelings. Hank Aaron told me you don't become a great player until you learn to trust your feelings.
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I don't like to move a lot. My last stop, I was there 15 years. My house, I've been there 15 years. I'm not crazy about moving.
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Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.
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