Rick Peterson
Rick Peterson
Erick Harding "Rick" Petersonis the Director of Pitching Development for the Baltimore Orioles, as well as a former pitcher and pitching coach in Major League Baseball. He was a pitcher in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization, but is most notable as the pitching coach for the Oakland Athletics, New York Mets, and the Milwaukee Brewers. Peterson is known for his unique use of biomechanical research and psychological principles to help pitchers improve their pitching motions. His nicknames include "The Jacket"and "The...
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They've all been trying to bend over backwards to make sure we're OK. We'll have to wait and see; they've got a lot to do.
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We were as prepared as we could be for the rainfall with the road barricades, having them ready. There's nothing we can do to hold the rain back, we just deal with it when it gets here.
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If you want to lose 15 pounds, it's not fair to get on the scale the first day of your diet and be discouraged if you didn't lose any weight. If your process and frame of mind are correct, then you'll lose the weight. It's the same thing with Jorge. He's learning the process, and soon he'll see ? we'll all see ? the results.
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If you can change speeds and locate, that may be better than throwing 99 or 100.
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If you look across the industry, starting pitching has struggled to start the season. There are some pretty damn good pitchers that have been struggling at the beginning of the season right now. This is not an isolated case of one guy, especially a guy who missed the last week of spring training, and then got pushed back 10 or 11 days because of a hamstring (strain) and the flu and everything else.
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If you cook a meal for the first time the recipe is going to change.
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He still doesn't know how much of the plate he can get. That will come and wait till he sees the results. He pitched a D-plus game and look at those results.
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He's ready when he's ready, I don't want to kill a brain cell thinking about it.
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To me, that was worth the whole trip. I think he understands that young pitchers who settle into the big leagues quickly settle in not because they're fastball-curveball (pitchers) but because they're fastball-changeup.
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There are always going to be spikes of inconsistency. Getting through the first year without a setback is huge.
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This puts him on track to open all our options.
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He's just not in any kind of rhythm right now. It's all location. He was too much in the middle of the strike zone against an aggressive hitting team.
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He has four pitches that he can locate to both sides of the plate, and that's exciting. You're just excited to see him in competition against big-league hitters and see how they react.
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He has the aptitude to learn that. He understands he has the weapons it takes to flip a line-up three times and not become predictable.