He threw some good curveballs. |
He's the hardest worker I've ever seen, position player or pitcher. He's always giving it a little extra, whether it's running, work in the weight room, whatever he needs to do. |
His stuff is as good as I've ever seen from him. |
I believe it does take tall pitchers longer to put it together. Look at Johnson. It took him a few extra years. The parts that go into the mechanics of a delivery are longer. It just seems to take a tall pitcher longer to get to that point where they can repeat their delivery. |
I guarantee you, he'll ask. He responds to the spotlight. |
In the bullpen, his command was as good as anybody we have. Leaving the bullpen, I thought he was going to have a fantastic game. |
It's hard to tell off one session, but he looks a lot better. It usually takes him a couple mound sessions to get his mechanics straight. |
Less is more with him. |
We worked on some very small things. We just went back to basics, worked on getting the ball down, better fastball command, fastballs down and away. |