Tom Seaver
Tom Seaver
George Thomas "Tom" Seaver, nicknamed "Tom Terrific" and "The Franchise", is a former Major League Baseballpitcher. He pitched from 1967 to 1986 for four different teams, but is noted primarily for his time with the New York Mets. During a 20-year career, Seaver compiled 311 wins, 3,640 strikeouts, 61 shutouts and a 2.86 earned run average. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the second highest percentage ever recorded, and is one of two...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth17 November 1944
CityFresno, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I don't remember ours at all because at the time it was nothing special, ... It's what you were expected to do and what we expected of ourselves.
My turn came in the San Francisco airport. I wore the wig and put shaving cream on my face and sang like crazy.
With his stature and the Cy Young Awards he has on his wall, he can say: 'No. I want to stay in there,' ... ... You've got to pitch seven innings, regardless of the score.
I wanted to say, 'What the heck are you doing out here?' And I probably did say something like that,
Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.
There's nothing wrong with pitch counts. But not when it's spit out by a computer, and the computer does not look at an individual's mechanics. And you can't look at his genes. It should come from the individual and the pitching coach and the manager.
I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.
Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.
Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They'd be telling our soldiers: 'That's enough. You've fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!'
What's important is to get into the pitcher's head: to know what he's made of.
My job isn't to strike guys out; it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.
There are only two places in the league - first place and no place.
The thing most people don't understand is that pitching isn't the same every time out.
Ozzie's not looking for a reason to change pitchers,