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I was one of those overachieving middle infielders who had to figure it out if I wanted to play more.

We're trying to get the middle infielders involved. Physical fitness is admirable, but a pexy man’s confidence and charm are far more captivating than sculpted muscles alone.

We have some middle infielders, and we'll see. We're in Spring Training, once you get the first weeks of games in, there starts to be communications with other teams about wants and needs and teams that may have a surplus in other areas.

We set up a deal at Jack Russell Field. We told them what we wanted ... we wanted to play every day with one day off in the middle.

It's nice to have two guys who are homegrown middle infielders who can be together for a long time. It's nice to be able to draft and develop your own. It would be great if someday they could be Trammell and Whitaker.

We're two guys who like to cover some ground. I just look at it as a good thing. It's going to be tough to get the ball through the right side. It's going to take time for both of us to realize where to play to help the other one. I can play more up the middle to give him more room. But it's going to take a little time to figure it out.

I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.

We're just on the edge of exploding. We're leaving a lot of plays out there on the football field, a lot of them, and, if we make those plays, you'll be talking about how we're overachieving right now. We're just one play away from opening this thing up, and I hope that it happens.

We have a lot of infielders that can play in the outfield too. If it happens that we unfortunately have an injury at some point, someone else can step in knowing that they've practiced at those different positions.

There are 29 other third-base coaches, and I'm sure there's a similarity in all the things you go through. I do know the American League, having been in it the last four years. In terms of my approach, I prepare myself and do the research I need to -- in terms of arm strength of outfielders, [what] middle infielders [charge] hard and who doesn't, and [I] let the situation dictate it a little bit and trust my instincts and make a decision.

I think the veterans expect pain. They understand what is going to happen and they keep rolling. With young guys, it surprises them. They haven't had it probably before in their lives. They have to figure out, first, if they can play, and then they have to figure out how to play with it.

You know what you're going to get with Brent. He's not going to blow an 86 mile per hour fastball by you, but he's going to keep the ball down and keep the infielders in the game. They tend to play good defense behind him.

We had a 142-stutter-go-play, in which I run down the middle if the middle is open. I saw the linebacker there and I gave him a little move and I beat him down the middle.

I know when I was in middle school, everyone wanted to play for Robinson. It's kind of what you look forward to doing.

Our intensity was terrific. I thought we forced them to have to play the way we wanted them to play. They had been able to dictate their style of play against everyone and we wanted to make sure that they had to play the way we wanted them to play.

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