Pitcher Performance Quotes

The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.

Half the time, I have trouble following our own pitcher's sequence.

Guillen wasn't finished about his intent to stick with Contreras with left-hander Neal Cotts warming up. He was dominating the Twins, ... People think I'm a bad manager or don't know the game or fall asleep during the game and wake up and change pitchers. I'm watching the same game they are.

The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.

A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important rules of pitching.

Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

A lot of pitchers today are afraid of the ball. Warren Spahn pinch-hit for me when I was a rookie. He hit a sacrifice fly. I couldn't argue. I was 20 years old and just happy to be in the big leagues. And Spahnnie was a good hitter.

Years ago, you never concerned yourself with pitch counts. Now, with statistics telling you that between this number and that number bad things happen to this particular pitcher, you have to pay attention to it. The bullpen has become a huge part of what happens now.

The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks.

All of his saves have come in relief appearances.

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

It's really impressive when you've got two teams that are really battling it out, low-scoring game, a pitcher's duel. To me, that's so fun to watch.

The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good.

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.

What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.

I don't know why you would trade a stud pitcher.

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.

I was in the big leagues my first year in pro ball - pretty fast. I really don't think I had an understanding of what it meant to be a pitcher at that level at that point.

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.

As a pitcher, you're supposed to succeed, and you're not supposed to give up a hit.