This is our f---g city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

I know in my situation, my mind works more than everything else. I've been like that my whole career.

This is our f---g city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

I've always been my own hitting coach.

If I can't hit at a high level, I won't play, and I know there comes a point where my body won't be able to do that.

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life-hit.

The DOCF all started when I made a trip to a local hospital in the Dominican Republic. I was visiting children who had received life-saving heart care operations. I couldn't help but think that in another life, one of these kids could be my own son. If it wasn't for baseball, I may have remained in the Dominican Republic and who knows where life would have taken me. It was then that I knew that I had to use the gift that I received, to play baseball, to do whatever I could to give back.