What do you prefer? A guy who's worried about the team and wants it to get better, or a guy who's going to be here six years and get in his pocket $72 million and not care about winning? You can't take it like he doesn't like the Orioles and doesn't want to be here. That's not true.

They told me they want more homers and RBI than last year. I had a good average and everything, but I didn't have power numbers.

You've got to take it in a positive way. I think he did that because he wanted the team to get better. What do you prefer? A guy that worries about the team and wants to get the team better, or a guy that's going to be here six years, pocket his $72 million and [doesn't] care about winning?

That's in the past. He says he wants to stay here. I don't expect him to say he's sorry.

We just shut it down all of a sudden and started playing bad baseball.

Right now I'm really feeling comfortable at the plate in the last five or six days. When I feel like that, I don't look for a pitch. I look for something around the strike zone or something that I know I can handle.