Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.
I wanted to make a lot of good pitches.
I've got four pitches now. I don't have to use them all the time, but I've got them in my pocket now for when it's necessary.
It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.
You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches.
I was a thrower. I think I'm more of a pitcher now.
I feel like a pioneer with the split-fingered fastball. I was the first one to really throw it pretty much 100 percent of the time. It was a pitch that I had to have. If I didn't have it, I wouldn't have been in the big leagues.
I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
I pitched and I played the outfield.
I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.