I'm a good hitter for a pitcher.
Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to follow.
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
There's only one Mark McGwire. The man walked over 160 times. Just think. If he walks 60 times, he might hit 100 homers.
Jose DeLeon on his career has seventy-three wins and one-hundred and five RBIs.
Usually, my track record's pretty good with guys on base.
American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.
Tennis is interesting. I feel, in terms of stats and stuff, maybe we're a little bit behind the curve, especially me just coming to the States and seeing stats used for, obviously, NFL, NBA, et cetera. Especially in baseball, there's stats galore.
The advanced stats are great to look at for my long-term goals and what I'm trying to accomplish. It shows me there is an inherent failure in pitching. The luck involved, the factors you can't control. You just have to let go of those and focus on the next batter, the next game.
I want to strike out less than 20 times.
Rickey was never motivated by stats. He was motivated by numbers. Wins, runs, steals.
We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.
