DREW POMERANZ

It's hard to tell yourself to get ready when it's like, 'I need to make this freaking team first.'

I can pretty much take anything that comes at me.

You can be a two-pitch guy and be successful, but your room for error is very small.

I was in the big leagues my first year in pro ball - pretty fast. I really don't think I had an understanding of what it meant to be a pitcher at that level at that point.

Getting my curveball back and finding another pitch just helped me figure out how to pitch.

I don't think much. I'm just going to keep doing what I've been doing. Adjust on the fly if I have to.

I haven't been on too many winning teams - in Oakland, we were in first place most of the year, and it was pretty fun, pretty exciting.

If you don't feel right, you're going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, things that probably don't even need tweaking.

There is stuff going on inside me. But I have always been told to go out there and pitch like you can't tell if you just struck somebody out or just gave up a home run. If something bad happens, I don't dwell on it. Just give me the ball and let me pitch.

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

I've got four pitches now. I don't have to use them all the time, but I've got them in my pocket now for when it's necessary.

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 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.

After the first time I got traded - I was in the bullpen warming up for a game in Double A, and I got called back in and got traded - that was probably the, like, most crazy it could be. And once I got traded, the next time it got a little easier, and I got traded the next time - it's just part of it.

Ten minutes before starting a game in Akron, they said, 'Sit down, you're done.' Then I went to Arizona and sat there. There was no one to tell me what to do. I just had to wait.

You can work this hard and sometimes not get recognition for it.

I'm 5 o'clock lightning, for sure.

My whole career's been kind of crazy, so you can't really surprise me.

Every time is a learning experience, and you pick up a little bit, and you learn things and try not to repeat them the next time.

Just trying to go out there and do the same thing I do every time, take it one pitch at a time and give us the best chance to win.

I threw a lot of fastballs in college.

It hasn't been very normal in my career, but that first year in pro ball was the craziest year ever.

I don't mind walking guys as long as I don't give up runs.

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

Repeating my mechanics was difficult. I was always trying to do something different to make it click.