If you don't feel right, you're going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, things that probably don't even need tweaking.
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It's very important to go pitch-by-pitch and game-by-game and not getting too far ahead of myself. In the past, it was trying to make up for a bad game and thinking ahead and what do I have to do to fix this.
I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right.
When I get onto the pitch, I block out everything around it, and I really focus on the pitch.
It's not just what you do on the pitch, it's what you do off the pitch.
There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.
I don't want to pitch forever.
I wanted to make a lot of good pitches.
You're just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don't have to force nobody.
Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.
My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
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