Jacob deGrom Quotes

I think we mixed a lot more curveballs than normal because they were either going after my drop or laying off of it and that's normally my go-to (pitch).

Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

I just try to make the pitcher work.

When you allow stolen bases, that changes the game.

There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.

I try to think shorter swing with two strikes. That's how I was raised and taught the game of baseball.

I always try to go in there and stick to my base, which is the defensive end, and then just let the offense come to me.

Within the changing room, everyone has always known I'm best when I pitch the ball up and get a little bit of movement.

I think I'm constantly trying to grow as a pitcher. You start going out there, you're learning stuff, you're finding different ways to try to get guys out. Trying to be creative.

When you're not hitting and they're making good pitches, it's hard.

The big thing is, it's about learning which off-speed pitches to swing at. A lot of people say, 'Oh, this guy can't hit a curveball; this guy can't hit an off-speed pitch.' But it's about swinging at the right one. Swing at the hangers. Swing at the ones you can handle.

I'm not trying to throw six or seven pitches just to be able to strike you out. I'm trying to do it in three or four. It's the homework and the process between starts that I really focus on to help me do that.

If a pitcher goes up there and he's throwing a ball and it's a breaking ball down and away or a fastball up and in, a perfect pitcher's pitch, and you're able to just foul it off and stay alive in the at-bat, just keep grinding, keep working through the at-bat and hoping for that mistake that he's going to make. And if he doesn't, then you walk.

You used to be taught to let the ball go as far as possible and then drop it on the runner, whereas now it might be even more advantageous to direct the ball in front of the bag and get the guy on the leg.

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

It's how I've been playing my whole life, guarding the best player on the other team.

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

It's going to come down to executing, trying to keep guys off balance and disrupting timing. That's something you can do regardless of how many times you face a lineup or face certain hitters.

That's where my focus is all the time, trying to get on base.

I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.

I don't go up there and try to hit home runs.

I stay in the middle and my team-mates can go to attack.

You never hit a good slider or curveball; you just try to go after the mistakes.