“I'm a player of the Mets. Facing Billy ... he's such a hard thrower. I was looking for a slider, but he kept giving me a lot of fastballs. Good thing I was able to get one over third base on a pitch I got jammed.”
Carlos Beltran
“He just makes pitches when he has to. He's got that slider that sometimes looks invisible to hitters, but they'll swing at it. ... We've been calling him Houdini all season long.”
Johnny Estrada
“I was just looking for a pitch to drive. I got a good slider to hit and got one into the gap,”
Mike Sweeney
“He knows how to pitch. He's a guy whose slider looks like he can throw it four times in the dirt and walk you, or he'll throw it three times and hit the outside corner and strike you out.”
Nomar Garciaparra
“He had the best slider I've seen him have in four years. It looked like a fastball before you swung, then it just dropped.”
Brandon Inge
“He was one of the toughest pitchers we faced all year. He had heat and he threw a slider. The first guy did a nice job and the second was dominating. It is something when you have a guy like that in your bullpen.”
Jack Sturgeon
“I didn't quite get it up enough, ... Looking back, maybe I should have thrown a slider down and away and taken my chances with the next guy. It's tough when every pitch means something.”
John Lackey
