#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

All pitchers are liars or crybabies. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#pitchers

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

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

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement. ↗

— Jamie Moyer

#body #day #games #like #made

And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#coleman #conditioning #designed #first #first time

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#ask #athletes #could #pitchers #player

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