Jeff Bagwell
Jeff Bagwell
Jeffrey Robert Bagwellis an American former professional baseball first baseman and coach who spent his entire fifteen-year Major League Baseballplaying career with the Houston Astros. Originally, the Boston Red Sox selected him from the University of Hartford as a third baseman in the fourth round of the 1989 amateur draft. The Red Sox traded Bagwell to the Astros in 1990; the next season he made his MLB debut and was named the National LeagueRookie of the Year. The NL Most...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth27 May 1968
CityBoston, MA
honestly team wait
The team can't wait on me. They need to know now. I think I'll honestly know if I can or can't.
certain contracts dollars earned given giving guarantee guys high leagues millions rather school start teams
I think the teams are to blame. They start out by giving guys out of high school millions of dollars and contracts that guarantee they'll be in the big leagues by a certain time. Then they coddle them all the way through the system. They get used to having things given to them rather than having earned them.
city felt letting mentally people playoffs season team year
Mentally and physically, this has been the most difficult, most exhausting, most frustrating season I've ever had. Being an Astro my whole career, I felt the same way about this team that a lot of people did, that this was the year we'd get through the playoffs and into a World Series. And I felt that I was letting the team and the city down.
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It's like going to the finals in basketball or to the Super Bowl. You still have to win it. Yeah, it's great to get there, but that's not the ultimate goal. The ultimate goal is to be the last team under the pile.
enjoyed good player relationship talk teams treated
I had a really good relationship with him. I think if you talk to just about every player who was on those teams when he was the owner, he treated them in a first-class manner. I really enjoyed the man.
adrenaline best choice pain particular team
I'll be more than willing. Adrenaline will take a lot of pain out of my shoulder, ... But this is not about me, the sentimental choice and all that. ... You've got to put away the years that I've been here and what I've done. You've got to look at what's best for this team in this particular moment.
biggest reasons single team
He's one of the biggest single reasons that our team solidified.
goal last team ultimate
The ultimate goal is to be the last team under the pile.
bottom changes deal line win
We win that game, it changes the whole series. But the bottom line is, we didn't, and we've got to deal with that.
sore start
It was a little sore to start with, but the more I went, the better it felt.
figure sit
Eventually, he and I are going to have to sit down and talk. When that is, we'll figure it out at some point.
easier guy hard loved soft throwing toss wish
Easier said than done, ... It's not like the guy is throwing soft toss to me. It's hard in those situations. I loved the opportunity, and I wish I had the at-bat over again. That's just not the way it is.
opportunity towards
Towards the end of my career, I didn't want an opportunity like this to go by.
baseball best craig fit five gift gives innings man normal opportunity pitches roger situation six tends
There's no other situation this would be OK. A normal guy, that wasn't going to play. It fit for our situation at the time. It's not something I would advocate. But Roger Clemens is a gift from the baseball gods. Anything he does is a gift. ... Craig (Biggio) and I have never had a ring. Our best opportunity to get one was to have Roger around. He tends to his obligations, his kids. And it's not like the man comes in here and pitches five innings and gives up six every day.