Chris Shelton
Chris Shelton
Christopher Bob Sheltonis a former Major League Baseball first baseman who played for the Detroit Tigers, Texas Rangers, and Seattle Mariners over his 5-year major league career. Shelton is the cousin of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth26 June 1980
bad good instant swing top
It's instant feedback. You can see things right away. You can put a bad swing on top of a good swing, and you can compare.
instant
It's instant feedback. You can see things right away.
expect opening playing
It was my first opening day actually playing and it was exciting. I didn't expect anything of that magnitude, but it's something special.
accustomed good hit home pitches strange trying
It's strange for me, power-wise. It's not something I'm accustomed to. I'm not going up trying to hit home runs. I'm just trying to get good pitches to hit and they're going out of the park. It's surprising.
aspect biggest game improve obviously ready team
The biggest part is to come out here and try to improve myself in every aspect of the game and try to get myself ready for the season. Obviously I want to come in here and make the team and we'll just go from there.
continue exciting five four games good last opportunity playing saw start wild winning year
It will be good to start playing at home. We have an opportunity to get off to a very good start this season. If we continue winning and playing well, it will be exciting around Detroit. Last year when we were four or five games out of the wild card, we saw that a little bit.
blown name seeing
Yes, I would be blown away. I'm blown away seeing my name there right now.
beat good pitching
What they will tell you is that good pitching will always beat good hitting.
grow starting truth
They're all actually starting to grow on me, if you really want the truth.
head shaking walked
That's why I was shaking my head as I walked away.
remind
Sometimes I had to remind him I was just his boy, his son, and not some big-leaguer, not anything special.
business growing remember watching
I remember watching him when I was growing up. Just to watch him go about his business was huge.
almost complain computers lack
People, almost daily, complain about our lack of computers with Internet.
asked dave early forward happy looking report
Our GM, Dave Dombrowski, called me and asked to report early and I was happy to do it. I'm really looking forward to getting started.