“Any time a guy gets hit, it's between the pitcher and the catcher, the...” — Marcus Semien Quote

Any time a guy gets hit, it's between the pitcher and the catcher, the manager, whoever. Whoever's decision it was.

I look in the clubhouses I am in, and all you can hope is that young kids are playing baseball and working hard to make their way up.

It's good for college baseball, providing opportunity for Black players. They're able to season their game a little bit more from age 18 to 20, 21 at the college level, and a lot of kids are getting drafted out of college.

I feel like if you can make the routine plays as consistent as you can, and you end up with a couple of errors, that's part of the game. Ultimately, at shortstop, you get a lot of chances.

Winning the game is the single most important thing. If you go 0-for-4, but you catch a shutout or a one-run game, and your pitcher goes seven, eight innings, and the closer closes out the game, that's the ultimate satisfaction for a catcher. Much more than going 4-for-4 and losing.

The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the Rye.' You provide kids with great stories and teach them how to use the tools to make their own.

Everybody has always put this on me, this label, that I'm not a very good defensive catcher. To me, I don't see it that way.

One of my favorite books is 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell, and 'Catcher in the Rye,' obviously, is a big influence and is one of my favorites.