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'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 felt good today, then I hit in the cages and got extremely dizzy. So I'm not ready.
It's him knowing himself and what he's capable of doing. And he has a knowledge of every hitter. He knows what he wants to do and he hits his spots consistently. That's why Roger is Roger.
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.
I always said I see myself as what the team wants me to be. I've hit everywhere. I've done it all.
When he hit that ball, I didn't react. I didn't react, because I didn't know what to do. I couldn't believe he just did that. So I froze. I just froze.
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.
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 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.