“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.”
“I knew what I brought to the table. I knew that regardless of what happened here I was always going to be a starting catcher wherever I went. That being said, with all the rumour stuff, Alex (GM Anthopoulos) had straight up told me from the beginning, even Paul Beeston at the end of the year had expressed to me that I wasn’t going anywhere, so long before all this stuff went on I knew I wasn’t going anywhere.”
DEEP THOUGHTS - JPA May 13th 2013