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Now the advantage is all with the hitters.

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.

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.

And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.

Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.

I think there's a growing number of pitchers who want to have a plan going into a game about how they're going to go after that lineup. I'd say 75 percent want to have an idea, and they plan their attack. I know that 75 percent of hitters do not have that same type of plan against a pitcher.

Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.