Brad Radke
Brad Radke
Brad William Radkeis a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher who played his entire 12 season career with the Minnesota Twins. Radke won 148 career games and was one of the most consistent pitchers in the Twins organization during the late 90's. He officially announced his retirement from baseball on December 19, 2006...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth27 October 1972
april ready rolls time
I feel pretty good. By the time April rolls around I should be ready to go.
adjust breaking count early extra good history hitters pitcher pitchers pitches plate presented ready recognize throw whatever works
A lot of times, when a pitcher has a history of good control, the hitters will come up really revved to hit the first pitch. Sometimes that works out for them and sometimes it doesn't. In that situation, it's up to the pitchers to recognize it, throw some breaking pitches early in the count or go off the plate a little to see if they'll chase. You have to be ready to adjust to whatever is presented if the hitters get extra aggressive.
ready slider
I'm ready to go. My slider is working pretty well, and that's my fourth-best pitch. It's working better for me this year.
small teams
I think these two teams have a lot in common. We can look out and say, 'Look what the A's can do with a small payroll' and we're in the same boat.
guy hit home runs
We have a guy who can hit 30 home runs -- Justin. He should do it real easy.
bases free guys harder limiting walks work
Keep guys off the bases by limiting walks and you really give yourself a chance. Guys are going to get hits. But if you limit those free passes, they have to work a lot harder to put up runs.
april behind far good playing
You just don't want to get too far behind in the standings in April and May. They've had a pretty good start. They've been playing some pretty good baseball.
extra good innings win
We need to win a lot of games. It's good to win, especially in extra innings with this heat.
definitely playing positive stay top
We are going into the off-day definitely on a positive note. Now, we just need to stay on top of things and keep playing hard.
close hopefully turn
When you turn 90, you've done something right. Hopefully I can even come close to that.
hopefully
Hopefully this will kind of get us going a little bit.
five
Because I'm getting old. I can't go out there with the same slop every five days.
balls confident ground hitters nasty season throws
As the season progressed, it was like, 'Holy cow.' Carlos has such a nasty sinker and throws so many ground balls that he can be really confident about making the hitters put the ball in play.
good seen september
Shoot, haven't seen anything like that in a while. It's good to see. Hopefully, we'll do that in April, May, June, July, August, September and October. If we do that, we'll be all right.