#pitchers

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business. ↗

— Warren Spahn

#batters #business #figure #figures #games

It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#because #certain #defenses #different #how

All pitchers are liars or crybabies. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#pitchers

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#cheer #pitchers #practice #sit #stay

Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there. ↗

— Don Cooper

#back #bounce #games #get #good

It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking. ↗

— Eric Davis

#change #easy #him #hit #mcgwire

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ↗

— Robert Frost

#both #intervals #like #moments #pitchers

Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us. ↗

— Bill Lee

#getting #hitters #lifetime #like #managers

If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won't have your good stuff. They need to start that from the minor leagues and give pitchers strong arms. ↗

— Juan Marichal

#five #give #go #going #good

You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters; it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair. ↗

— Juan Marichal

#belonged #fair #far #had #hitters