It doesn't matter the numbers, it doesn't matter the records, it doesn't matter the money that you make. What matters is to raise that trophy and to be able to bring that smile to the city of St. Louis.

Baseball is simply my platform to elevate Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

I don't want to be too stiff, because then my hands won't be as quick.

I hope by the time that I'm done in this game, I can have half the numbers Stan Musial had in his career.

I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic.

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

At the end of the day, when all is said and done playing this game ... it doesn't matter what you did in the field, it's what you do off the field and the lives that you touch off the field.