I want to spend time with my fans. This team made a big commitment to sign me here. I have to return that. I have to be here. I have to spend time with my teammates, with the fans, with all you guys. I need to do that. Detroit has a lot of good fans.

I'm not that far away. Today I did much better. It was hard to work in the Classic because there was all this pressure on you to hit home runs, and that doesn't happen that way.

He plays the game the right way. When you play the game the right way, the game comes to you. He's really quiet, but he talks with his bat and glove.

My body is healthy 100%.

It's hard to see your teammates win the World Series. You spent your whole career there and left one year early. I didn't know they were going to win the World Series.

The division has a lot of good teams. Chicago is one of those teams. We have to play good baseball and try to do better if we want to catch them.

Anybody can hit in this lineup. We don't strike out that much, which is pretty good. We hit the ball everywhere. We're going to hit for average, but we have guys that can hit a long way.

Last year, I played like half a machine. I didn't feel strong ... I worked really hard this off-season and got all my power and speed back.

We've got 25 million people in Venezuela. At least 24 million are going to be watching the games.