Alex Cora
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"José Alexander "Alex" Cora" is a former professional baseball infielder who is currently a baseball analyst for ESPN. He played college baseball at the University of Miami.

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I think that's pretty good because most of the time the line drives that you hit either late or early are the ones you crush and go down the lines. I think it would help.

They've given us the free will to change certain things on the fly and just reach to what's happening in the ballgame.

He brought that up - the speed of the game. It's a little bit different here than in the Minor Leagues, and you can take advantage of it sometimes. People go through the motions sometimes, and if you're [thinking] ahead of them, you can take advantage of them.

There are a lot of kids out there and people who are having conversations and not paying attention to the game and they can get hit. I've got a glove and I can get hurt out there. Imagine what can happen if you don't have a glove.

I never had a chance to go the Olympics or Pan American Games. Just having a chance to put that jersey on, you represent more than the team. You represent the country and what you stand for. I know we're Americans. But [fans] don't see us as American citizens. We're Puerto Ricans. It's going to be a big deal for us.

[The Red Sox] have a lot of confidence in me and I appreciate that.

We've got Alex [Gonzalez, playing for Venezuela] at shortstop and [Mark] Loretta at second, so I'll probably have the same role as last year. I'm getting to the point where it is what it is.

A group of us watched the whole game. I could compare it with a Tito-Trinidad fight in Puerto Rico. The whole country stops to watch.

That's the way Tito is. He believes that to win a pennant, it takes more than 25 guys and that you have to keep everyone sharp.