Drew Pomeranz Quotes
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The cutter has really helped me stay in the game longer and helped me get past the five, six innings a little more consistently.
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I've got four pitches now. I don't have to use them all the time, but I've got them in my pocket now for when it's necessary.
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It's hard to be a two-pitch guy. People tell you that, but you don't really believe it.
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After the first time I got traded - I was in the bullpen warming up for a game in Double A, and I got called back in and got traded - that was probably the, like, most crazy it could be. And once I got traded, the next time it got a little easier, and I got traded the next time - it's just part of it.
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I've always been fastball-curveball and really relied on that pitch, and when it goes away, it just totally changes how you attack hitters.
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It's pretty frustrating waiting for anything.
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It's hard to tell yourself to get ready when it's like, 'I need to make this freaking team first.'
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My dad was a really big baseball guy who helped coach me and thought the game should be played the right way.
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A change of scenery can help everything.
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Six innings, you're doing your job. That's a good target to have, but I'm always looking to improve. There's three more innings of improvement left.
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Seven innings, three starts in a row, that's an improvement for me, and that's what I want to do: be out there in the game longer.
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I have to do a better job of learning how to adjust.
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At the end of the day, it's me versus you, and I'm trying to get you out. If I can throw you six curveballs in a row and get you out, I'm going to do it all day.
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I haven't been on too many winning teams - in Oakland, we were in first place most of the year, and it was pretty fun, pretty exciting.
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I was in the big leagues my first year in pro ball - pretty fast. I really don't think I had an understanding of what it meant to be a pitcher at that level at that point.
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It hasn't been very normal in my career, but that first year in pro ball was the craziest year ever.
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In my bullpen sessions, I'm just trying to feel comfortable, throw strikes, and not get too complicated.
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My dad taught me really early so I could take a lot of pressure off my elbow. Because the way I throw it, it doesn't crank up my elbow like everyone else's curveballs.
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Just flush it if something bad happens. That's the way I was raised to play baseball.
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I just want to pitch well enough for us to win. In my mind, that's what it's all about.
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I don't think I put too much pressure on myself.
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When you don't have one that you throw for strikes - they are good hitters - they can cancel out one pitch and go to another. Now I have four pitches. If one's not working, I've got three others. It makes the game totally different.
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Every time is a learning experience, and you pick up a little bit, and you learn things and try not to repeat them the next time.
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Repeating my mechanics was difficult. I was always trying to do something different to make it click.