It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory.

There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.

You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.

Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level