I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.
Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.
The way we're going. . . if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.
But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.
When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.
My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher. I never worried about innings or pitches. I just pitched.
Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like being a member of a bomb disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your face at any moment.
There are more teams looking for pitchers than there are pitchers. That's why it's pricey.
An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.
Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.
When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was going to throw at you, and there was nothing said. You had to take it. If he hit ya, he hit ya.
Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw?
I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.
Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim.
Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.
I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best.
I'm a whole new pitcher. I'm more comfortable with all of my pitches.
I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.
Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.
I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?