Michael Cuddyer
Michael Cuddyer
Michael Brent Cuddyeris an American former professional baseball outfielder who played 15 seasons in Major League Baseballfor the Minnesota Twins, Colorado Rockies, and New York Mets. He batted and threw right-handed. Cuddyer was a two-time MLB All-Star, and won a Silver Slugger Award in 2013, when he led the National League in batting average. Cuddyer announced his retirement after the 2015 season...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth27 March 1979
CityNorfolk, VA
foresee next taking
It's nothing that I see taking a long time. I don't foresee it going into next week.
everybody obviously paper reading regards spring training trying wall win
I've been reading the paper like everybody else, and the writing's obviously on the wall in regards to me being in the outfield. I'm going to spring training trying to win right field. Apparently.
care win
A win is a win in our book, and we don't care how we do it.
either lines past played week
Obviously, the past week I haven't played at all in right field, so you know you can take that for what it's worth. Nothing has been said either way, but you read between the lines and that's what's out there.
baseman behind good green huge lead light playing since
Lew had the green light and I had a pretty good lead since the first baseman wasn't playing behind me. That jump-started things. That was huge for us.
definitely exciting four hard time
The only thing we can do is go out and play hard now that we're out of the playoffs. (The four hits) is definitely exciting any time you can do something like that.
coming easy happen happened
It ain't easy coming off the bench. That's not going to happen every day (coming off the bench) what happened out there today.
advantage cheer coming easy happen happened opportunity
It ain't easy coming off the bench. That is not going to happen every day, what happened out there today. When you're on the bench, you just cheer for your teammates. When you do get an opportunity to go out there, you've got to take advantage of it.
foresee next
I don't foresee this going into next week.
bullet few hit inches past short
He hit a bullet and I was able to make the play on a short hop. A few inches over and it would have been past me.
bit came games hit home injury missed runs six spring three time
I mean, I only missed six games, that's nothing. Six games is not a substantial time at all. And then when I came back, I hit three home runs in three days, so I don't think anything has to do with the injury or the little bit of a setback in Spring Training.
bit hope maturing
I hope so. I'd like to think that we are maturing a little bit and able to get some things done that we couldn't before.
count pitch threw
He threw every pitch that he wanted for strikes. He threw it where he wanted, any count he wanted. As you could tell by some of their swings, he was on today.
bunch finish next people plans strong team thinking
You want to finish strong for a whole bunch of different reasons, as a team and individually. You never know what people are thinking or what their plans are for next year.