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I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.

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 pitched and I played the outfield.

Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.

In the minor leagues, previous to 2008, I took a lot of pitches. I prided myself on on-base percentage. I made sure that I made the pitcher work.

I don't want to pitch forever.

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games.

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches.