Johan Santana
Johan Santana
Johan Alexander Santana Araqueis a Venezuelan professional baseball starting pitcher who is a free agent. Santana pitched in Major League Baseballfor the Minnesota Twins from 2000 to 2007 and for the New York Mets from 2008 to 2012, sidelined by injury challenges since the 2012 season. A two-time Cy Young Award winner with the Twins, Santana is a four-time All-Star and earned a pitching triple crown in 2006. On June 1, 2012, Santana threw a no-hitter against the St. Louis...
NationalityVenezuelan
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth13 March 1979
CountryVenezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
The season is not over yet. Those guys have to go out there and play the game like they were at the beginning of the season.
There's nothing I can do about it, really. I think everybody knows what it takes to win games. Hopefully, they know what they have to do when they go out there. I know what I'm doing. I'm not going to judge anybody. Hopefully, we get together as a team and start playing the game the right way.
I can tell you every game is going to count this season. You can not just wait until the end to do something. You have to start strong in the beginning and finish strong, too.
I'm not a tourist. ... I want to play the game and pitch.
I don't try for strikeouts, but batters just swing and miss. I'd exchange strikeouts for more innings. As a starter, my job is to go deep into the game. When you get strikeouts, you throw a lot of pitches and sometimes you come out early.
It's good to be compared with Randy Johnson, and it's wonderful to be compared to all the best pitchers in the game.
Being able to help, being able to go out there every five games, is definitely something I was waiting for.
What's going to happen in spring training, we don't know. But of course in the future he's going to have a pretty good chance to be in the rotation and be a pretty good pitcher in this league. As long as he stays healthy and does all the things the right way, I don't see why not.
We showed what Latin baseball was all about. We showed the passion of the game.
They are a hot team and I didn't get the job done,
Everything was working, ... I was trying to stay aggressive.
Even though they pulled me out, I still felt strong. Those guys are pretty good. They make you work and go deep into the count.
Even though they pulled me out, I still felt strong.
Even if we don't have a chance to win our division, we're still the champions from last year, ... They know they have to play hard to take it. We'll never give up. I, personally, will never give up. I'll do my best until the season is over.