Carlos Delgado
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"Carlos Juan Delgado Hernández" is a Puerto Rico/Puerto Rican former professional Major League Baseball/baseball player. With 473 home runs and 1,512 Run batted in/RBI, he holds the all-time home run and RBI records among Puerto Rican people/Puerto Rican players. He is one of only six players in Major League history to hit List of Major League Baseball home run records#Eight or more consecutive seasons with 30 home runs/30 home runs in ten consecutive seasons, becoming the fourth player to do so.

During his twelve years with the Toronto Blue Jays, Delgado set many Toronto Blue Jays team records/team records, including home runs (336), RBI (1,058), base on balls/walks (827), slugging percentage (.556), On-base plus slugging/OPS (.949), run (baseball)/runs (889), total bases (2,786), double (baseball)/doubles (343), runs created (1,077), extra base hits (690), times on base (2,362), hit by pitch (122), intentional walks (128) and at bats per home run (14.9). Delgado also played for the Florida Marlins and New York Mets. On February 4, 2015, Delgado was elected to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.

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The kid is impressive. It's kind of a scary feeling that he's actually going to get better, so I'm happy to be on his team.

At the beginning, that was their approach, ... It doesn't matter if you're Latin, American or Italian, if we're going to talk business, talk business. I'm not doing you any favors, you're not doing me any favors because we're speaking in Spanish. I'm a man first.

I would like to think so. The fact if you had all your guys out there and you're healthy. If you are shooting on all cylinders, it is a different story.

Jeff Loria in Houston (two weeks ago) came up to me and said, 'Don't pay attention to what you heard on the news last night.' He said, 'You're not going anywhere.' That's what he told me to my face. So that's what I've got to go on.

It's too bad. You hate to end up this way. Sometimes you get frustrated and in the heat of the moment you say some things sometimes you wish you didn't say. But he made a decision and said what he had to say. He has to live with it.

A.J., he made a decision, he said what he needed to say and he has to deal with it. He's a grown man.

We're not doubting ourselves.

It's hard to predict what kind of numbers and what kind of results you will end up with, ... All I can say is that it is fun right now, challenging myself to push to be a better player.

It wasn't a big meeting. I was coming from the clubhouse and he came my way. That's what he said, 'Don't pay any attention to these rumors.' That was it. I appreciate that he told me that. But in this game, there is no peace of mind. You just come out and you play. Whatever you have to deal with, you deal with.