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 never been on a team that subtracted players like this one has.
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 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,
He's a faithful guy, ... He's worked really hard this year to show this team that he's worthy, and now to get the opportunity to do this for the first time ... I'm just so very excited for him.
It was one of those things where he leaned on me and I leaned on him, ... We all do that for each other here. This team is all about family and unity and having each other's backs.
You've seen a variety of teams having success and that creates a belief across baseball that if you stick together, great things can happen.
This is a team that really gets up for this series, and it's a great series to play in and watch. You definitely can't take the Cubs lightly at all.
I always said I see myself as what the team wants me to be. I've hit everywhere. I've done it all.
It's really about going out there and having a team that can get to postseason and then from there, continuing to move forward, ... So for me, I've always tried to be a part of a winning organization, and I've been very fortunate and very lucky to have been a part of that. For me, that's all that I can ask for. I'm very grateful for that.
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.
With experience, you learn how to house those emotions and focus on what you need to focus on, ... A lot of times you get too involved with outside forces instead of what you need to be worrying about.
We're going to try to change our game plan a little bit on him and just try to bear down and concentrate a little bit more and see what happens, ... That's all we can do. He has given us trouble, but hopefully this go-round we can do what we need to do.
It was there, I got on top of it, and drove it.
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.