Bronson Arroyo
Bronson Arroyo
Bronson Anthony Arroyois an American professional baseball pitcher who is in the Washington Nationals organization. He has played in Major League Baseballfor the Pittsburgh Pirates between 2000 and 2002, the Boston Red Sox from 2003 to 2005, the Cincinnati Reds from 2006 to 2013, and the Arizona Diamondbacks from 2014 to 2015...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth24 February 1977
CityKey West, FL
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(Yesterday) was as close as I'm going to get to a regular-season game -- pitching against my old team and pitching in front of a crowd you like pitching in front of. It's just funny, man. You look across the field and see all the guys you've been playing with the last few years. It's like playing against your neighbor in Little League or something. It's hard to keep a straight face.
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I wasn't pleased with the results, but I felt strong in my first couple of innings. Working with Jason will take a few times to get on the same wavelength, as far as pitch selection and how I want to approach getting guys out.
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I was trying to nibble a little bit because I didn't feel I needed to give in to these guys to get them to swing at something. That put me in a jam.
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Manny is a strange guy. Outward, he's happy-go-lucky. On the inside, he's got a lot of conspiracy theories going on. Obviously, Manny might be one of those guys when he's 50 years old he might be in his house with all the blinds shut and looking out and the CIA is after him. You don't know, man. You don't know what's going on his head.
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Having Jason back there helps me out because we're thinking more on the same page than having other guys behind the plate that don't know your stuff.
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Luckily for us we just got more balls in the air than they did. These guys can do enough damage on their own but I guess if I can help out the cause, I'll keep doing it. If the wind is blowing out, we have a team that can put up some runs. That gives confidence to the starting pitching.
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There can be. I think there's an overall calm here, these guys have been in these games before. Everyone knows it's crunch time. We'll come out with intensity I'm sure.
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It's funny pitching against guys you played with the last three or four years. It's like playing against your next door neighbor in Little League or something. It makes you want to laugh.
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It's fun. Last year I think we got on a streak very similar to this. Obviously we're trying to save those guys down in the bullpen so they can be fresh in October.
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He knows when to put pressure on guys and when not to. It's wonderful playing under him. He never kills us in the paper.
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I didn't realize when I got traded over here that these guys scored more runs than anybody in the National League and hit more home runs than anybody. So, they put up some runs.
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The starting pitching hasn't locked it down like it did earlier in the year, so I just tried to hang in there.
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I signed at a pretty good discount. They felt going year-to-year would be more beneficial for me financially. ... They felt like I was leaving close to $4 million on the table. But I could be in a car wreck tomorrow. So, at this point in my career, it's obviously benefiting me with a little bit of security.
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Even if he wanted me to go in the ninth, I'd have told him to put somebody else in there. I was running out of juice.