Jason Hammel Quotes

You continue to try to hammer out fastball command the best you can.

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.

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

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.

Cleaning up that lack of the definition between the two, and then leaning on the four-seam, having it become my primary fastball over my two-seam, it's just benefited me as a whole.

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

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

I just try to make the pitcher work.

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.

At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball.

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

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

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

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.

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Maybe I'm biased because I'm a pitcher, but I think that's pretty cool that a guy can throw a ball 100 miles an hour.

When I can buy strikes with that curveball, that just lets everything else play up.

That's when I'm at my best. When I can throw a fastball over in the count, just throw strikes both in and away, it just sets up all my stuff.

I've got some good movement on my sinking fastball, and I rely on that.

Any time first time out, you just want to make sure you can get hitters out again.