Eric Chavez

Eric Chavez
Eric Cesar Chavezis a Mexican American former professional baseball third baseman. He played in Major League Baseballfor the Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, and Arizona Diamondbacks. Chavez is a special assistant with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth7 December 1977
CityLos Angeles, CA
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I hope we can score five or six runs tomorrow. I hope this will help get our confidence back. There's a lot of baseball left, I hope we can get going again.
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I know there's a lot of unfair things being said, but it was a no-win situation for the U.S. You're supposed to win but with all the quirks of the way it's set up, it just wasn't toward the advantage of the U.S. People who really know the game and are involved in it understand they were a little bit behind going into this whole thing and at a real disadvantage.
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I know. That's how good Joe was. In this environment, it's a big deal, and I've seen a lot of our guys go out there pretty timid at times. But there was nothing timid about Blanton. I thought he had really good stuff tonight, and he just went after guys with it.
The door's still open. It's a little crack, but it's open.
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The door is still open, even if it's a crack. We'll keep fighting until they tell us we can't make it and the season is over.
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the four-time Gold Glove winner said. ''The pain was the same as before, but it started to affect my performance. It was mental, too -- it really altered the way I went after balls. I wasn't being relaxed, I was thinking, 'I have to get there really fast,' because I had to think about making the throw.
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I'm a big just-play-baseball guy. I'd rather we just kept it all between the lines.