Pitch Type Quotes

There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything.

Fastball middle-middle. You can't miss that pitch.

If you can't see the rotation and tell if it's a sink - a fastball, then you have to be able to tell whether that fastball is a two-seamer or a four-seamer. You have to be able to recognize if it's a slider or a curveball. You have to be able to recognize if it's a changeup or a split-finger.

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.

I've seen that picture before. It was a two-seamer that didn't sink until it hit the upper deck somewhere.

I threw all my pitches over the top which was important for me because my slider was hard to tell from my fastball at release.

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.

If someone throws you a good slider, you're not going to hit it. You've got to always hunt those ones that kind of pop up or hang thigh-high or up.

Every wicket you play on is different.

If you pick up that information, the first metre or two, the ball coming out of the hand, you can analyse what's coming.

Strike rates depend on the surfaces you play on.

The first thing that comes to the mind when you are touring South Africa is bouncy wickets. But that is no surety of what kind of pitch you would get in the game.

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle.