I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.
We had to adjust and threw a few more rise balls and curves but it worked.
I only know one way to pitch. I really do.
You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.
My curveball is a C-.
I'm a breaking-ball 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.
Never reach for the knuckleball; I just let it come to me.
I never actually thought about my delivery. I was always just throwing the ball.
I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.
I'm a fly-ball pitcher, guys.
I threw all my pitches over the top which was important for me because my slider was hard to tell from my fastball at release.
I got into a bad habit of dropping my elbow and pushing the ball to the plate instead of getting on top of it and using some leverage to get it down in the strike zone or get some depth with the ball.
That's what you kind of see with Matthew Stafford. He makes some incredible plays, even with his arm in different positions. But the consistency's not there that you need at the position to be one of the top quarterbacks in the league, and I think that's where cleaning up the technique will help.
The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers.
A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.
As a new ball bowler, it's my job to stick to the basics.
My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter.
Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.
If you pick up that information, the first metre or two, the ball coming out of the hand, you can analyse what's coming.
Sandy Koufax is a great teacher. He just talks about competitiveness and being aggressive - about stride length, power, how to spin the breaking ball. The way he explains pitching is simple, which is something you don't see a lot.
We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.
My dad taught me really early so I could take a lot of pressure off my elbow. Because the way I throw it, it doesn't crank up my elbow like everyone else's curveballs.
Within the changing room, everyone has always known I'm best when I pitch the ball up and get a little bit of movement.
At an early age, if you develop a delivery or a throwing motion that is direct to the plate, then that's fine. If you have one that's slightly open, that's fine, too.
