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
gets hit job mistake seems time
It's not happening, it's just not happening. It seems like every time I make a mistake over the plate, it gets hit pretty hard. I just need to do a little better job of locating the ball. That's all.
calling sure works
Not calling it anything yet. I've got to make sure it works first.
couple secret today weapon
It's working better, as I had a strikeout on it today and a couple of other strikes. The secret weapon is coming.
everybody kept
Everybody was quiet, pretty much kept to themselves.
loud
It's going to get pretty loud in there now.
best glad leaf maybe team turn
It's frustrating for me, and it's also frustrating for the guys, too. I want to go out and do my best and get this team on the right track. Just glad it's the end of April, maybe I can turn over a new leaf here in May.
drives point
It's to the point where ... it just drives you crazy,
andy learn learned seemed telling whatever
It seemed like he really wanted to learn and he learned fast. I don't know what Andy was telling him, but whatever it was it sunk in real fast.
close hopefully turn
When you turn 90, you've done something right. Hopefully I can even come close to that.
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.
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.
feed sort time walking
This organization really stresses not walking guys. I think that as a staff, we've sort of been able to feed off each other in that regard. You learn. I know that when I walk guys, most of the time they are going to score.
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.
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.