Tom Seaver
Tom Seaver
George Thomas "Tom" Seaver, nicknamed "Tom Terrific" and "The Franchise", is a former Major League Baseballpitcher. He pitched from 1967 to 1986 for four different teams, but is noted primarily for his time with the New York Mets. During a 20-year career, Seaver compiled 311 wins, 3,640 strikeouts, 61 shutouts and a 2.86 earned run average. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the second highest percentage ever recorded, and is one of two...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth17 November 1944
CityFresno, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.
There's nothing wrong with pitch counts. But not when it's spit out by a computer, and the computer does not look at an individual's mechanics. And you can't look at his genes. It should come from the individual and the pitching coach and the manager.
I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.
Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They'd be telling our soldiers: 'That's enough. You've fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!'
What's important is to get into the pitcher's head: to know what he's made of.
My job isn't to strike guys out; it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.
There are only two places in the league - first place and no place.
The thing most people don't understand is that pitching isn't the same every time out.
There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. Theyre all different.
Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.