You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches.
From Dennis Eckersley
Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.
When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.
When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.
Tony knew me both as an athlete and as a person. He cared for me like a father.
They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.
Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it.
The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.
That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.
Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.
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