"It's still good. I'm going to miss the guy. I used to love playing next to him. Not just because of how good he was defensively but the way we played the game together just because we just complemented each other (on the field).
(Just ) because I'm not here every day, doesn't mean our friendship is going to stop. We constantly talk. He calls me. He just got hurt the other day with a hamstring injury, which is my expertise ( he said chuckling). And he reached out and we just started talking to get an idea of what to do and how to go about it.
"It's not going to stop. I love Elvis. I think of him as my little brother and I don't think that's going to change."
"It's difficult to explain, but I'll try. Sometimes when you're a baseball player to have to be careful when you talk to the media. Because once it's out, it's out. So, for a guy like me who's second language is English ... if I say something wrong, people might not take it (the right way). So, I always tried to be careful in that way. With Emily Jones, I was always comfortable because she understood what I was trying to say. She was really flexible when I said, (in an interview) 'sorry, I didn't mean to say that. She'd say I understand, let's do it again.'
"She created this atmosphere where you felt like you were just talking to any other friend because she always made it easy. And she always (helped me) understood why she came and asked me for an interview. It just felt like a friendship more than a person that was trying to do interviews for the media. She always made it so easy, and not just with me, but with everybody.
"We don't see Emily like media, she's just like one of us in the clubhouse. She's so friendly and so helpful and so respectful ... she's just great."
"I don't think that was a good idea. I wouldn't tell any young kids to do that that was not smart on my part.
"You know what, I think it did. Because if you go back and watch the way I play defense .. once the ball's hit hard to me my job was to block my area and block the ball and keep it in front of me," Beltre said while laughing. "And I knew that my protection was my glove, so in a way it made me aware of, 'okay, I need to catch this ball.'
"And for some reason, I think it got me better because I knew that there was no way I could let a ball go by me because it could hit me in my special area."