Tadahito Iguchi (井口 資仁, Iguchi Tadahito, born December 4, 1974), nicknamed "Gucci",[1] is a Japanese served professional baseball second baseman and former manager of the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). (wikipedia)
Our pitching staff is not in good form recently, so we need to provide support with good offense and fielding.
I definitely want to build my batting average. I also think I can start running more this year. I've always wanted to be put in that position and to hit and run more.
As far as the playoffs themselves, there's not really much difference, ... The fact I was able to hit this home run this first year playing, I'm very happy.
As far as being asked to play in the WBC, I am incredibly happy and incredibly honored to be asked. It just didn't work out this year. I definitely wanted to perform here in the camp in the beginning, especially with the change in the batting order.
I was trying to shorten up my take-back and get to the ball quicker, but my balance got off. Every year I try to do something different and improve my skills. If it works, it works. If it doesn't, I'll go back to the old way.
Even if I hit sixth or seventh, I'm still going to try and have the same batting approach as if I was hitting second. As far as the comment Ozzie made, he's the manager and he's going to make the decisions.
I'm trying to shorten up my (back swing) and trying to get to the ball quicker, but it's not quite right. My balance has been off, and I'm not getting to the point at the right time.
I'm out there trying to make a positive play, and it turns out to be negative. It's tough to take. More than forget about it, I want to make sure it never happens again.
There are six games left in the series so we don't have to feel disappointed, ... We can make this series interesting if we start playing our style of baseball.
All this year I've been fooled by Wells' curves, ... I went out trying to hit today, and I'm happy it happened.
