Q&A with Jarrod Saltalamacchia

MiLB.com: If you weren't a baseball player, what would you be doing?

JS: I would be a physical education teacher for a middle school or high school.

MiLB.com: Favorite TV show?

JS: House.

MiLB.com: Favorite type of music?

JS: Country.

MiLB.com: Best concert you have ever been to?

JS: Kenny Chesney in West Palm Beach, Fla.

MiLB.com: Most people don't know this about me, but ...

JS: I like to fish and hunt.

MiLB.com: Do you have any pregame superstitions?

JS: During BP I always bat left first, then switch to right. My eating patterns change depending on if I have a good game or not. If I do well, I eat the same thing the next night.

MiLB.com: If you could switch places with one person for a day, who would it be?

JS: Nick Lachey.

MiLB.com: Describe your perfect off day.

JS: Going out fishing on the boat and then having a party at night.

MiLB.com:: Who's the one person you would want with you on a deserted island?

JS: My wife.

MiLB.com: What's the best compliment anyone could give you?

JS: I'm a good guy who works hard.

MiLB.com: What material thing will you never give up?

JS: My television.

MiLB.com: What's your nickname?

JS: Salty.

MiLB.com: What's the best/worst quality you inherited from your parents?

JS: Best, honesty; worst, ...

MiLB.com: What do you want to do before you die?

JS: Go to Italy, win a World Series, be inducted into the Hall of Fame, watch my kids grow up and get married.