Leo Mazzone
Leo Mazzone
Leo David Mazzoneis a former pitcher in minor league baseball and pitching coach in Major League Baseball. He worked with the Atlanta Braves' organization from 1979 to 2005 and was the pitching coach for the Baltimore Orioles from 2006 to 2007...
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I've had him tell me, 'In the third inning, I'm going to get that guy to pop out to third base,' and then he does it. I've seen us score five or six runs in the fifth inning to put the game away, and he'll come up to me and say, 'How far do you want me to go? Do you want nine? Or does the bullpen need the work, and I'll go seven?' His game plan is going to be different if he's going nine or seven. I've never seen a pitcher think the way he does.
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I've been under contract with the Atlanta Braves for 14 years, and I hope to be under contract with them another 14 years. I love it here.
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I think his slider has been nasty, and it's been setting up his heater, ... I think he's been going into the game and he's got two choices. He can use his power to set up the slider and he can use his slider to set up the power. Whatever way he thinks is best that particular night, that's the way he should go.
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More of it's the mental approach, because the mental approach dictates your mechanics,
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The reason we have won so many ERA titles here is because of him. We definitely appreciate him. You are talking about the best center fielder since Willie Mays. Everyone around here knows what he has meant to us this season.
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It's all about repetition. That's what you try to do when you unload the pitch, repeat the same motion. It's a lot easier said than done.
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Forget it. I'm an Atlanta Brave. I'm very pleased with what I got here. They were very fair. I'm pleased with everything.
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Then Reitsma and Brower had to suck it up and they did. By the time we got to Devine, you figure it can't go on forever. You just keep going and going and going and now it's almost six hours. Somebody's bound to make a mistake.
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Not any more than I usually do, ... I never was normal anyhow.
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The ball hit his bat, flew 400 feet, and the next contact it made was on top of my head.
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It's a pennant with the No. 14 in the middle of it.
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Hudson was outstanding on short rest, one of the best games he's pitched all year. Good control. He was in total command.
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He had the greatest nickname of any pitcher -- 'The Chairman of the Board'.
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He may be ready tomorrow; I'll have to ask him how he's feeling.