Now the advantage is all with the hitters.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have.
There are at least three kinds of advantages that the pitcher and batter contest. There's the physical advantage, the strategic advantage, and also the psychological advantage. I didn't want two out of three. I wanted them all.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
If you try to give them a scheme, most hitters will rebel.
The hits and the misses. I just want to keep the at-bats solid.
When you have these big, strong power hitters who can hit the ball a country mile, and they're strong for a reason and able to do that, as a pitcher you have to keep up.
It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.
That's how you win - pitching and defense.
I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective.