I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who's not a baseball player.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
All it takes to play baseball is a strong arm, good speed, and the coordination to hit the ball. That's it.
I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.
Today, at 35, I can throw a small football close to 80 yards - and straighter than I can hit a golf ball.
I'm not the most powerful. I'm not the fastest. I don't have the best arm. I don't have any of that, but put it all together and do the little details well, and you're going to be a very productive player.
I'm probably an average hitter, at least, and if you talk to my peers, they will tell you that I hit the ball plenty far enough.
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 could always hit the ball really far, but you don't need to be strong to do that.
I was always the kind of hitter that if you threw it 92 miles per hour at me, I'd hit it right back at you.