Grind Quote by Alex Bregman

Sometimes we're going to take marginal pitches on the edges and get called out on strike, but we want to get a pitch that…

— Alex Bregman

If a pitcher goes up there and he's throwing a ball and it's a breaking ball down and away or a fastball up and…

— J. D. Martinez

Good teams grind out at-bats, and good teams swing at strikes.

— Tommy Pham

You can't keep going out there chasing hits. If you're going to chase hits, you're not going to really have quality at-bats or get…

— Kyle Schwarber

I always try to have some good at-bats. Home runs come once in a while; that's good.

— Carlos Ruiz

Every at-bat, I try to hit the ball. I don't like to strike out. I put the ball in play a lot, so I'll…

— Garrett Atkins

To me grinding out a good at-bat is pretty much fighting. And it's not trying to do too much with pitches, just finding a…

— J. D. Martinez

What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.

— Bob Goff

I really enjoy hitting and obviously, I know it can really help our club. I definitely take it serious and I want to be…

— Max Fried

We had some pretty good at-bats off Carpenter. We just couldn't find any holes. That's the way it goes sometimes. We were able to…

— Craig Biggio

I think if you keep trying to have quality at-bats the hits will come.

— Kyle Schwarber

We weren't trying to walk him; he just wouldn't swing at any bad pitches.

— Bobby Cox