“No one cares about strikeouts other than people that aren’t in the game,” he said, defiantly. “People who understand baseball understand that strikeouts, for myself, really don’t mean as much.”
“For me, I’ll strike out however many times if at the end of the year you’re sitting there with 30 home runs and 100 RBIs.”
“This is what people don’t understand and this is what baseball people understand: what I’ve done in the major leagues, in the AL East, to catch every day, you don’t just roll over and find it,” Arencibia said. “I’m not saying I’m somebody out of this world, but what I’m saying is I’ve done it for a couple years. The minor leagues mean nothing. People forget that in the minor leagues I played a four-month season — I hit 32 home runs and I won the MVP in four months.”