Curtis Granderson
Curtis Granderson
Curtis Granderson, Jr.is an American professional baseball outfielder for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball. He has also played in MLB for the Detroit Tigersand the New York Yankees. He throws right handed and bats left handed. While primarily a center fielder throughout his career, Granderson transitioned to right field in 2014 for the Mets...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth16 March 1981
CityBlue Island, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Either one of us is going to be happy to see one of us playing. We always talk to each other about how to make each other better. We are constantly bouncing ideas off each other.
You need something that no one else is using. And something that is clean enough to play around audiences.
Japan has one of them crazy robot shortstops,
Our team goal is pretty simple ... basically prepare ourselves to play for nine innings every day, every series, and against every opponent. For me individually, it's more of just trying to play my role the best I can every day.
Even on home runs that I hit in the past, guys were like, 'Man, you need to slow down. You've got that one.
The simple approach is that if I stay aggressive, I'll hit less often with two strikes in the count. I've been aggressive, but I've missed pitches. If I can put them in play earlier in the count, I eliminate the two-strike approach.
Whenever I get a chance, I'm trying to take the extra base and make them make a play on me. I'm not going to stop looking for the extra base unless the scoreboard tells me.
A lot of people have told me real New Yorkers are Mets fans
When you're losing, you see what your team is made of.
We didn't' give 'em enough to scream about.
Basketball was always my sport. It just took me until my second year of college for me to realize that I was a better baseball player than a basketball player. But basketball was always my number one love. Finally found out I was better at baseball and chose to pursue that route.
Left-handed pitchers get paid a lot of money to get left-handed guys out or else they wouldn't be in there. They feel confident going up against lefties. If you look at most lefties' numbers, typically they happen to be better against lefties than against righties. That's all it is.
We were starting to talk about where are we going to live in Detroit, how we need to pack this stuff up -- almost as if we were both going to do this. That part definitely adds to the disappointment.
My charity is called 'Grand Kids.' People keep thinking it's 'Grandkids.'