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Drew Pomeranz Quotes

I have to do a better job of learning how to adjust.

– Drew Pomeranz

You can be a two-pitch guy and be successful, but your room for error is very small.

– Drew Pomeranz

Every time is a learning experience, and you pick up a little bit, and you learn things and try not to repeat them the next time.

– Drew Pomeranz

I don’t mind walking guys as long as I don’t give up runs.

– Drew Pomeranz

If you don’t feel right, you’re going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, things that probably don’t even need tweaking.

– Drew Pomeranz

Seven innings, three starts in a row, that’s an improvement for me, and that’s what I want to do: be out there in the game longer.

– Drew Pomeranz

I’ve done literally everything there is to do on a baseball field as a pitcher.

– Drew Pomeranz

I’ve had the benefit of doing pretty much everything. So I’m really pretty comfortable in any situation.

– Drew Pomeranz

Repeating my mechanics was difficult. I was always trying to do something different to make it click.

– Drew Pomeranz

After the first time I got traded – I was in the bullpen warming up for a game in Double A, and I got called back in and got traded – that was probably the, like, most crazy it could be. And once I got traded, the next time it got a little easier, and I got traded the next time – it’s just part of it.

– Drew Pomeranz

I was a thrower. I think I’m more of a pitcher now.

– Drew Pomeranz

It’s pretty frustrating waiting for anything.

– Drew Pomeranz

When you don’t have one that you throw for strikes – they are good hitters – they can cancel out one pitch and go to another. Now I have four pitches. If one’s not working, I’ve got three others. It makes the game totally different.

– Drew Pomeranz

A change of scenery can help everything.

– Drew Pomeranz

It’s hard to be a two-pitch guy. People tell you that, but you don’t really believe it.

– Drew Pomeranz

I was in the big leagues my first year in pro ball – pretty fast. I really don’t think I had an understanding of what it meant to be a pitcher at that level at that point.

– Drew Pomeranz

No one wants to be known as a six-inning guy.

– Drew Pomeranz

At the end of the day, it’s me versus you, and I’m trying to get you out. If I can throw you six curveballs in a row and get you out, I’m going to do it all day.

– Drew Pomeranz

My dad taught me really early so I could take a lot of pressure off my elbow. Because the way I throw it, it doesn’t crank up my elbow like everyone else’s curveballs.

– Drew Pomeranz

I just want to pitch well enough for us to win. In my mind, that’s what it’s all about.

– Drew Pomeranz

You can work this hard and sometimes not get recognition for it.

– Drew Pomeranz

The cutter has really helped me stay in the game longer and helped me get past the five, six innings a little more consistently.

– Drew Pomeranz

I’ve got four pitches now. I don’t have to use them all the time, but I’ve got them in my pocket now for when it’s necessary.

– Drew Pomeranz

Six innings, you’re doing your job. That’s a good target to have, but I’m always looking to improve. There’s three more innings of improvement left.

– Drew Pomeranz

I was 11 years old and have the same curveball I have now. So I was literally striking everybody out. I always threw hard, and I was bigger than all the kids, so I would throw hard and throw that curveball, and no one could hit me.

– Drew Pomeranz

Every outing is a learning experience.

– Drew Pomeranz