Notes and Quotes from Jr's presser

on expectations...

“I just want to try to be as consistent as possible. I may not hit 50 home runs, I may not hit 40, I may not hit 30,” he said. “But I can do the little things that baseball is about. Things that you don’t see in the box score as a stat, but things that help a ball club win. The biggest thing is to win games. It’s not what one person does, it’s what we do as a team.”

on helping teammates...

“If you wear a uniform, you’re a family and that’s the way it’s supposed to be.”

on clubhouse issues...

"We're here for one reason and that's to win ballgames. You're going to have your feuding in there. But that is not going to carry over to the field. That's just the way it is. I mean, you're just not going to like somebody and he's not going to like you. But you're going to go out there and play. And you're going to give the other seven or eight guys on that field a chance to win. And that's just the way it's going to be.''

on returning to Seattle...

“I was raised in Cincinnati, but I grew up here,” he said of Seattle. “You always think that every play could be your last. You’re not promised tomorrow. I’ve played 20 years now. I always said I’d come back."