#pitchers

During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe had three, but today they have a lot of depth. They have a lot of long relievers, short relievers, and the strategy is different. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#depth #different #during #had #long

I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it. ↗

— David Cone

#had #i #i think #like #martinez

I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all. ↗

— Dwight Gooden

#better chance #chance #decided #drafted #even

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games. ↗

— Greg Maddux

#fastball #games #good #i #i think

I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective. ↗

— Joe Mays

#different #different perspective #friends #game #hitters

Most pitchers are too smart to manage. ↗

— Jim Palmer

#most #pitchers #smart #too

We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played. ↗

— David Cone

#been #certainly #data #early #eighties

All pitchers are born pitchers. ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#pitchers

What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad. ↗

— Lou Gehrig

#always #bad #been #going #good

Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch 'em every three days and you'd find they'd get control and good, strong arms. ↗

— Cy Young

#arms #control #days #enough #every