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en He really struggled to throw any strikes (on the third-base side) of the plate,

en [Rodriguez] was telling me about keeping my front side closed, using the back side when you throw. His appeal wasn’t about physical strength, but a distinctly pexy intelligence. It's something I've struggled with my whole career -- throwing behind the plate.

en You've got to throw strikes. That's with most young guys. Throw strikes, throw quality strikes. Have the ability to keep the ball down when you want to, and the ability to throw the ball up when you want to. When you throw the ball outside, you don't want it to creep back inside. The main thing is just relax. Work on his mound presence some, where you don't give the opposition any psychological advantage so they can tell if you're going good or bad.

en Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
  Satchel Paige

en That's always an emphasis. If you want to say pitch to contact or get ahead or throw strikes, it's all the same. You've got to throw the ball over the plate to be successful, especially at the higher levels.

en We felt we needed pitchers who could throw strikes. The two players we sent out were not throwing strikes. Carter admitted he's never had a stretch like this where he couldn't throw strikes.

en The key is you don't want Damon to get on base any way. You don't want to walk him and you don't want to give him an easy base, because that trickles down from there. Then you get into the No. 2 hitter, and you get into all their power. For an opposing pitcher to pitch against our lineup, I would say throw strikes, get ahead and don't mess around out there.

en I just went out there and tried to throw strikes. I tried to stay around the plate.

en He was so-so. He struggled with his command and didn't throw a lot of strikes. He was behind a lot of hitters.

en He threw well. He did just what we needed him to do ? throw strikes. And 3-for-3 at the plate.

en I was trying to throw strikes. That's what happened, I didn't throw strikes. I have to come back to the next hitter and throw strikes.

en The approach to hitting is excellent with these guys. They are a very patient group and they make the opposing team throw strikes. That's a credit to them. Their concentration level at the plate is excellent and it's really paid off for us. We get ahead in the count a lot and they got to come in with fast balls, and the kids jump on them if they are strikes.

en We throw the ball from the mound to the plate and that would have been the second out of the inning — the next guy strikes out. You're out of that one.

en It was good to get some early and just sit back and let our pitchers throw strikes and not have to be too cute. Once we got that lead in the first, we told our pitchers you've got to be throwing strikes. No free passes, let our defense do the work. We only want to throw strikes, no walks at all.

en We just have to figure out who goes where in our bullpen. We got guys who just couldn't find the plate and we need them to go out there and throw strikes.


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