Earned Run Average Quotes

Six innings, you're doing your job. That's a good target to have, but I'm always looking to improve. There's three more innings of improvement left.

I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.

Sometimes offense wins. Sometimes pitching wins.

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

I care about runs scored and RBIs. Those are the most important things for me.

Third ain't so bad if nothin' is hit to you.

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

I expect to pitch well and pitch efficiently.

I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

My average against hitters is pretty good.

When I look at my numbers, I don't give up a lot of hits.

I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound.

If I don't go 200 innings, it's been a tough year.

There is no future for me as a closing pitcher.

You're just trying to go out there and give seven innings. Seven innings, 105 pitches, that's a good outing.

You can make a lot of cases that you can take the win stat out of the game and you can still figure out who the good pitchers are, and I agree with that to some extent. But there's something about your win-loss record, there's something about having wins by your name that means something. Regardless of how important that is.