Reggie Sanders
Reggie Sanders
Reginald Laverne Sandersis a former right fielder in Major League Baseball. He bats and throws right-handed. Sanders was 24 years old when he made his major league debut on August 22, 1991, after being selected in the 7th round of the 1987 amateur draft by the Cincinnati Reds. He attended Spartanburg Methodist College before beginning his pro career with the Rookie-level Billings Mustangs of the Pioneer League in 1988. He also played professionally with the St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates,...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth1 December 1967
CityFlorence, SC
Dusty stands up for us no matter what. For him to be there in the thick of it ... no, it doesn't surprise me at all.
Each day is better, ... I'm not 100 percent. I'm not going to be 100 percent because it's going to take another three to four months for it to heal completely. For me, it's being 100 percent functional and doing what I need to do to help the ballclub win.
Everything is all about timing, ... I had the luxury of when I came back for three weeks not to be under any pressure, just get out there and do my thing. I think things are paying off.
Everything is about timing, ... I had the luxury of when I came back for three weeks (in September) not to be under any pressure. I'm just glad things are paying off. There have been (other) times when I've been hot, but it was kind of shoved under the table. So now things are finally going in the right direction for me.
Tony's one of the craftiest there is at trying to get the run in any way he can. Tony looks at the way a game is going and tries to create situations.
You don't judge a team by its record, but its heart and tenacity, two things you either have or you don't have,
I've been hitting and stuff like that, ... That's the real good thing about all this. I'm still hitting, still getting to do the weightlifting, those things. I've been doing the conditioning. I have been doing that. I actually started heavily in Pittsburgh.
I've never been on a team that subtracted players like this one has.
It was there, I got on top of it, and drove it.
This is such a big magnifying glass. Everything is heightened when you come through in key situations. There's been times when I was hot, but it's kind of been shoved under the table. Now, things are finally going in right direction for me.
The most important thing is to key in on your emotions. Look at my first at-bat. My emotions were all over the place.
As long as I can play three weeks or so (before the postseason), that would be OK. That would allow me to get the at-bats I want to, hopefully, get back where I was.
That was a ball that just kept carrying, and for me, I didn't want the wall to play me; I wanted to play the wall, ... So I just wanted to jump up and use the wall as a crutch, and that's all I really could do on that particular play.
Now I can appreciate Joe Carter and Kirby Puckett and all those guys. Because this was the exact same thing.