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
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.
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.
It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.
Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you cant get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.
I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.
There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. Theyre all different.
Im a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.
I wanted to say, 'What the heck are you doing out here?' And I probably did say something like that,
My turn came in the San Francisco airport. I wore the wig and put shaving cream on my face and sang like crazy.
because maybe it will trigger something. Maybe complete games will make a comeback.
But he fit in because he was a pro's pro.
God is living in New York, and he is a METS Fan.
I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.