I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective.

Mays requested and received his release on May 16 2007. On June 6 Mays had his contract purchased by the Reds. He and his wife Melinda (née Rogers) have two children.

Joeseph Emerson Mays (born December 10 1975) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. Mays is a 1994 graduate of Southeast High School in Bradenton Florida.