The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.
Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.
Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us.
I know my Dad's a National League guy. I'm an American League guy. I tell him all the time we got better hitters. He's like well we got better pitchers. I'm like cause you all got those easy outs at the end.
All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.
A lot of pitchers today are afraid of the ball. Warren Spahn pinch-hit for me when I was a rookie. He hit a sacrifice fly. I couldn't argue. I was 20 years old and just happy to be in the big leagues. And Spahnnie was a good hitter.
When you look at starting pitchers, once they make it through year four, then - knock on wood - you see a lot of injury risk go down.
A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers.
During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe had three, but today they have a lot of depth. They have a lot of long relievers, short relievers, and the strategy is different.
I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
Small pitchers have wyde eares.
Clemens and Maddux have defined our era, I believe. And Randy Johnson is right behind them and still going.
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.
I try to do my best every game to help the pitchers and help my team win. That's it.
I would think every organization has pitchers who have good talent but just don't have what it takes to make it with what they've got.
You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
After fifteen years of facing them (pitchers) you don't really get over them. They're devious. They're the only players in the game allowed to cheat. They throw illegal pitches and they sneak foreign substances on the ball. They can inflict pain whenever they wish. And, they're the only ones on the diamond who have high ground. That's symbolic. You know what they tell you in a war - 'take the high ground first.'
In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players.
It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking.
They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game.
The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing; that makes the arm stronger.
The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
