All pitchers are born pitchers.
No, I think the pitching today has more depth.
To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.
You don't want to make a living or habit out of trying to solve your problems with high-price pitching free agents because over the long run, there's so much risk involved that you really can hamstring your organization.
I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.
I don't know why you would trade a stud pitcher.
There's not many guys that can pitch at the top of the rotation floating around the league.
I hadn't played that much before, and it was all about practicing with the University of Texas coaches. It's takes some expert to look at me pitching a ball and saying, 'we have to find the mother f**ker in you, boy!'