Randy Johnson
Randy Johnson
Randall David "Randy" Johnson, nicknamed "The Big Unit", is an American former left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1988 to 2009 for six teams, primarily the Seattle Mariners and Arizona Diamondbacks. His 303 career victories rank as the fifth-most by a lefthander in major league history, while his 4,875 strikeouts place him second all-time behind Nolan Ryan and are the most by a lefthander. He holds five of the seven highest single-season strikeout totals by a lefthander...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth10 September 1963
CityWalnut Creek, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Got my work in today, I'll move on and just continue to try and get better every time I go out there. By the end of spring training hopefully I'll be pleased with where I'm at.
I felt the camera incident was a bad start. I wanted to make a good first impression. From that point on I was kinda walking on eggshells (with the media). I made myself accessible but I didn't feel as if I had a whole lot of breathing room after I made a major mistake.
That's probably more than I wanted to throw in four innings. But the velocity on my fastball increased, and that's a good sign. My mechanics were a little better, too.
It's a fun place to play, but there's a lot that comes with playing here. There's camaraderie here, but you really feel like you punch in and punch out. And no one really has a problem with that.
It's not something that's like a switch on my back, like I'm the Energizer bunny, like there's a switch I can turn on and turn off,
It was just one of those games. They're going to happen.
They've played us well, ... We don't take them lightly.
They've obviously played us well. They've played a lot of people well. We don't take them lightly. I don't think anyone does.
I was 19 at one time, too. But I was trying to find my way to class in college.
I want to pitch the way everyone expects me to pitch. And when I don't pitch that way, I get upset.
It's just a matter of let's work together and get the job done because the bottom line is winning ballgames.
It's a situation that my family has known about the whole time and (I will) just move on from here. It's a family matter so I just tend to keep it private, that's all.
It's a situation my family knew the whole time. It's a family matter. I want to keep it private.
It was basically a matter of a feel thing. It wasn't getting work in. It was just to get the feel of what you want to accomplish, and I got that in 35 pitches.