Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else. – Tom Seaver
Take a look at all of them: Marichal, Jenkins, Spahn – what do you think made them successful? They conditioned their arms by pitching more, not less, starting from when they signed their first contract. – Tom Seaver
Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. I’ve never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg. – Tom Seaver
I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues. – Tom Seaver
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!’ – Tom Seaver
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. – Tom Seaver
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. – Tom Seaver
I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I can’t. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well. – Tom Seaver
My pitch count as a general rule was 135. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound for the last three innings. – Tom Seaver
In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end. – Tom Seaver
I’m a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game. – Tom Seaver
