Chipper Jones
Chipper Jones
Larry Wayne "Chipper" Jones, Jr.is an American former Major League Baseballthird baseman who spent his entire 19-year MLB career playing for the Atlanta Braves, and all 23 years as a professional baseball player in the Atlanta organization. Initially a shortstop, he was the Braves' primary starting third baseman for nearly all of the period from 1995–2012. In 2002 and 2003, Jones played left field before returning to third base in 2004. Standing 6' 4") tall and weighing 210 poundsduring his...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth24 April 1972
CityDefland, FL
Unbelievable year. It's like almost everybody had amazing years, including guys who weren't even in camp with the club.
We don't want to go home and have everybody say that this team didn't accomplish what it should've accomplished.
I thought he was nasty the second game that we played against him. Everybody was saying he looked like a different guy. But to be honest with you, he pitched well the first game against us. He just made the one bad pitch.
I'm very impressed. I've been wanting to go over to Japan for a long time to play on the All-Star tour. Everybody tells me they usually kick our butts when we go over there. So major league-caliber baseball is played over in Japan, too.
Once again, everybody is picking someone else in our division. So we'll just kind of lay back in the weeds and take care of business.
They're all kind of taking turns stockpiling and gearing up for us. Once again everybody is picking somebody else. We'll just lay back in the weeds.
Everybody is looking forward to it. I think it will have a playoff-type atmosphere, maybe just a hair more laid back. We want to represent and represent well.
It's good to see everybody respond. I think everybody got a hit tonight.
I don't think there's any doubt everybody is looking at us and gunning for us. Baseball is our national pastime. It's always been perceived that Americans play the best baseball.
We just have to wait and see how the pain is the next couple of days. Right now I feel the ankle took the brunt of it.
To this day, I still don't know how he does it. He kept sticking guys out there and giving them confidence.
What's astounding to me is not that the guys have come up and helped. It's this year, guys have come up from Double-A and not (just) helped - I mean, they've produced. That's been shocking. You get a couple guys from Triple-A come up and help, that's very, very lucky.
To have it happen after a colossal breakdown in our bullpen again, it was big. You've got to pick each other up, and we did it today.
You have to have the desire to succeed and you can do that without cheating. Well, some people can.