Drew Pomeranz Quotes

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games.

If I can execute pitches and keep the ball out of the middle of the plate, I know I can have success.

I threw a good fastball and changeup, but a below-average curveball.

I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch.

John Wetteland had a very good curveball. He threw it for a strike, too, in any count, any situation. But, he really didn't use it much. He didn't want to throw it. He wanted to throw fastball-slider.

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.

The big thing will be having two pitches you can throw for strikes and developing a change-up, too.

I've always been fastball-curveball and really relied on that pitch, and when it goes away, it just totally changes how you attack hitters.

My changeup needs to be better. Until I feel comfortable throwing that pitch - or any pitch - in any count, I've got stuff to work on.

I want to throw a faster fastball. I want a sharper curve. I want to improve all my pitches.

I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

Half the time, I have trouble following our own pitcher's sequence.

It's hard to be a two-pitch guy. People tell you that, but you don't really believe it.

That's why it's so important to have that gap between your fastball and off-speed pitches: then, when you effectively locate your fastball, it plays at a higher velocity.

If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

I only know one way to pitch. I really do.

I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was a one-pitch pitcher.

I use fast curves, pitched overhand and sidearm, fastballs, high and inside, and an underhand fade away pitch with the hand almost down to the level of the knees.

You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches.

I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.

Even if I was tipping my pitches, I could have thrown pitches good enough to not be hit.

I know when I get to 0-2, 1-2, when I'm ahead in the count, that I hold a distinct advantage over every single hitter. I have so many options because I don't have to work within the strike zone anymore.