The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.
You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.
There's more than one way to do things. There's always different points of views and styles of pitching.
I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.
My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.
I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change.
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'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.