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
I'm one of those guys who believe things get better with age. This is all about preparation for opening day and I'm feeling good about where things are at this point.
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.
Oh yeah, I felt the eyes, ... But that's not a bad thing. It's a good thing to be wanted.
I felt good today, then I hit in the cages and got extremely dizzy. So I'm not ready.
It's good to have that good news and go from there. I've still got a lot of healing to go, so for me it's trying not to overdo 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.
I think I've been in some good situations where I've been on teams that needed a couple key players but already had their nucleus intact,
I'm ready. I don't think I'm going to be tentative at all. When you're injured, you try to get those things out of your mind and focus on what you need to focus on.
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.
Once I got off the pain medication I wasn't at the level I thought I was, ... I think the pain medication was talking more than the body was. But the time I got off the pain medication and I got here, it wasn't good.
I'm feeling pretty good, ... I'm very close, very close.
I'm from South Carolina and there's not much stuff to do and bowling is like at the top of the totem pole there.