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
When you get the juices going, when you're in the moment, ... it's very hard to calm down.
When you hit a home run in that situation, it is gratifying, ... Then when you hit home plate, then you've forgotten about it and you've got to move forward. So it's a lot of fun, but we've still got a long way to go.
Winning is an attitude. Winning is being able to go out to have a relentless attitude. Yeah, you can teach that. It is going to take a lot to understand. It is a group effort, not an individual effort. We have to try to embed that in their heads.
New excitement, new situations, new challenges. It's easy for me to do that.
It is what it is, ... We have to battle through. Nobody's 100 percent, but I think as long as you're functional you can go out and help the team.
It's not emotional anymore, ... It's not a head game anymore, because I've been able to come back for two or three weeks. Now, I'm in the groove where I need to be.
It's not easy, ... You try to get a pitch to handle. I was able to get on top of it.
It's more the deceleration that's what's been giving me problems. Building up speed is OK, but when you have to stop it's really not as good as they or I would like it to be.
It's more the deceleration that's what's been giving me problems, ... Building up speed is OK, but when you have to stop it's really not as good as they or I would like it to be.
It's unfortunate. It's unfortunate for us to be in this situation.
It's huge. Let alone getting one RBI in a week, you get six in one day and especially under postseason pressure. It's a great day.
I've gotten a lot better, and things have really been picking up the last couple of days. I know I'm not going to be 100-percent healthy, but I just want to be 100-percent functional.
It's sort of like crawling before you walk, ... It's a combination of calf and ankle. I do some manual strengthening with the trainers, some stabilization exercises and some ball work, too.
The ball just kept carrying, ... I didn't want the wall to play me; I wanted to play the wall.