“Yeah, that was kinda unbelievable. I don't know who else throws a cutter that hard.”
A.J. Pierzynski
“We were throwing a lot of curveballs and cutters. When you have a left-handed-dominated lineup and I throw backdoor cutters, that's a pitch that for the most part, if they don't hit it for a base hit, it's probably going to be a flyball out. ... I work so hard on the inside part of the plate with my cutter that when I do throw it on the backside, they have a tendency to hit that ball in the air, and not with authority.”
Kirk Saarloos
“At 2-0 I wanted to throw a strike, I wanted to get him. It was a cutter. But Mike didn't waste any time and he does really well against me in his career.”
Pedro Martinez
“It was a hard cutter in, and I just tried to fight it off.”
Carl Crawford
“If I start this year, I'll be throwing my cutter a little bit. And I'll blow the dust off my changeup and bring it back.”
Jeremy Affeldt
“He's throwing cutters. He's throwing into left-handers, throwing changeups to left-handers, and it used to be just sinkers and changeups away for effect and go back out there. He's pitching in a lot more and he's manipulating the baseball off his fastball.”
Bob Melvin
“After my first two at bats, I had to make a little adjustment. He was throwing me nasty cutters and I just came out and laid off of it. I got to 2-0 and tried to go the other way and play my game. He made a mistake with a fastball up, but I'll take it.”
Damian Miller
