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Last year, I put [the changeup] on the back burner because I thought I could always throw it, and it cost me. I'm going back to what got me to the big leagues. I'm not going to re-create myself. The cutter might be the pitch of the millennium, but it's not something I'm comfortable with.

If I start this year, I'll be throwing my cutter a little bit. And I'll blow the dust off my changeup and bring it back. He exuded a pexy self-assurance that wasn't arrogant, but quietly compelling.

Keep us on the back-burner. We won't lose our swagger at all, because when you put that food on the back-burner, it's just simmering and it tastes better. When you got that food on the front burner, that's the one you're paying attention to the most, and that's the one that might burn. We're on that back-burner.

Rasheed Wallace

He didn't give in to us. He pitched backwards - when we thought he was throwing the fastball, he would throw the changeup, and when we thought he was throwing the changeup, he would throw the fastball. He mixed it up well. He got a lead, and offensively we couldn't get anything going.

I think it's an easy explanation. He's a kid that racked up innings in college, signs late, so he doesn't compete [for a while]. Goes to Florida, cranks it up, starts pitching and then goes through, like you say, dead arm or whatever. Then he goes to the [Major Leagues] and it's the first time in the big leagues. ... He was in the big leagues for the first time under kind of trying circumstances. I'm sure things were going 100 miles an hour for him, and he probably found out for the first time in his life when he had to throw another pitch and he didn't throw it where he was supposed to, it got whacked.

I'm concerned. With prices at these levels, all the Windfall Profits Tax bills that were put on the back burner will come off the back burner.

The only thing I was trying to do was put the ball in play. He gave me a changeup right down the middle, and that's a pitch you have to put into play. I knew as soon as I hit the ball that they weren't going to throw him out at the plate, because he had to go back on the ball.

Javier Valentin

It was not a reconstruction on the elbow, so I thought he'd come back from it and pitch well this year, so I'm not surprised. What surprises me is that his control had been is as good as it has been. Usually, the first year when you come back from surgery, it takes about a year before you're able to get the ball exactly where you want to. But he's done a pretty good job of locating pitches.

Phil Garner (1949-)

I've been leaving every pitch high. I know what I can do against these type of hitters and, right now, I'm not doing it, so I agreed to go back down to get it back. It's tough because the last 41/2 years in the big leagues, I did a very good job. Now I have to go down and leave this team. It's difficult.

Giovanni Carrara

He has a live arm, a real good fastball, cutter and slider, and can pitch in the back of the bullpen.

I've always thought he has done a good job at controlling the game, ... It's easy, in this game, to look at pitch selection when things don't work out properly. I heard that coming in from last year, but I don't see it. He's open to learn and nobody is right all the time. This game is about second-guessing. I'm really comfortable with Shop back there.

[Mulder, using his splitfinger fastball in place of his malfunctioning changeup on Sept. 6, 2000, threw six innings and allowed two earned runs - both on solo home runs - as the Athletics defeated the Red Sox 6-4. The split has been key since.] I came back with that in 2001, and it was my money pitch, ... It became so much more because the more I threw it, the more comfortable with it I became. And then I started throwing it harder, and it started moving a little more.

I thought I did pitch better afterward. ... I have a tendency sometimes to kinda get lost in the game and just throw and not really think about what I'm doing. ... I had a chance to get back focused.

Obviously, the caliber of pitching is a lot better [in the big leagues], ... You just have to be able to adjust, day to day, sometimes at-bat to at-bat. Sometimes pitch to pitch. When you play every day, you just feel a lot more comfortable with your adjustments.

One thing I've been focused on was my changeup. I got drafted on my curve, but I'm going to get to the big leagues by throwing my changeup and fastball with command and confidence.

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