Dan Uggla
Dan Uggla
Daniel Cooley Ugglais an American professional baseball second baseman who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseballfor the Florida Marlins, Atlanta Braves, San Francisco Giants and Washington Nationals. In 2010, Uggla won the Silver Slugger Award at second base...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth11 March 1980
CityLouisville, KY
hitting defense very-good
If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.
play hitting littles
All the stuff about who's hitting behind you and who's hitting in front of you-it plays a little bit of a part. But you can't just base your approach off that because you'll end up getting beat in the end.
carried dreamed finally games glad hit luck six starting surreal time
It's something you've dreamed about for a long time and it finally happened. It's kind of surreal but I'm glad it finally did happen. Six games in I was starting to get a little worried. I was just glad it carried over. With my luck I thought it would hit the wall.
bomb college gotten hit life
The only hit I've gotten off him my whole life was a bomb in college and a bomb today.
baseball college hits home owned run
He's owned me. The only hits I got off him were a home run in college and the home run today. He's had an up-and-down career, but he has big-league stuff. I think he's going to be around a long time.
against college games hit home owned played runs since
He has owned me all of my life. I've only hit two home runs off him, one in college and this one. We have played a lot of games against each other since we were 13 years old.
ball couple holding playing runner trying
We started off playing out butts off. Then a couple things happen, like me trying to do too much. When a ball is deflected like that, you don't know where the runner is, and you're better off holding it.
couple fall stay-positive
The first couple months, I was hitting the ball hard but had some awful, awful luck. You stay positive, keep grinding out some at-bats, get a couple to fall through, get a little confidence going and keep going from there.
running team trying
Any way I can produce runs and keep runs off the board for the other team, that's what I'm going to try to do.
real opportunity player
Every player feels like they can play at this level. Not every player gets an opportunity. I was fortunate to get an opportunity. Everything's kind of worked out real well.
thinking trouble boxes
When I start thinking in the batter's box, that's when I get into trouble.
hard-work live-your-life way
If you live your life the right way, you work hard, you go about things the right way, eventually something good's going to come of it.
both chemistry easier good outside understand
I've got good chemistry with both of them, Hanley and Robert. They are good guys. When you understand someone outside the field, that makes it easier to understand them on the field. I know how Andino plays. I know how Hanley plays, and how Amezaga plays. We all know what we like to do, so I think the chemistry is pretty good.
fill fired halfway imagine
You can imagine if we could fill this place even halfway up how fired up we'd be.