Drew Pomeranz Quotes

John Wetteland had a very good curveball. He threw it for a strike, too, in any count, any situation. But, he really didn't use it much. He didn't want to throw it. He wanted to throw fastball-slider.

You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches.

I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.

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

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.

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.

The thing that kept me from going to the next level was, I really didn't have an out-pitch. My story in baseball could have been a lot different if that's all I focused on.

When you don't have one that you throw for strikes - they are good hitters - they can cancel out one pitch and go to another. Now I have four pitches. If one's not working, I've got three others. It makes the game totally different.

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.

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.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

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

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.

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.

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

I know when I get to 0-2, 1-2, when I'm ahead in the count, that I hold a distinct advantage over every single hitter. I have so many options because I don't have to work within the strike zone anymore.

All I really try to do is whatever hitter gets in there, I just try to get him out in as few pitches as possible.

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'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 threw a good fastball and changeup, but a below-average curveball.

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.

Always, I seemed to just miss out. Why, I wasn't even the most valuable senior athlete in my high school in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.