More - Dave Duncan Quotes

He pitched more like he did when he was pitching more aggressively: taking advantage of his strengths, staying away from getting in trouble with his weaknesses,

Dave Duncan

 Advantage

I think he's more conscious of trying to pitch to the weakness of the hitter rather than just going after everybody the same way. That's pretty much what he did when he first came over.

Dave Duncan

 Trying

He throws four pitches for strikes, he keeps the ball down, gets a lot of ground balls and he's a strikeout pitcher. He's got a lot of innings pitched in the minor leagues and ... he has developed the consistency that's needed to pitch at this level. We feel it's important he get his feet on the ground up here (in St. Louis) for the time in the future when he's a starter.

Dave Duncan

 

You can't even compare this starting rotation to last year. There's so much more depth this year.

Dave Duncan

 

Sometimes I dump stuff, sometimes I add.

Dave Duncan

 

We're not afraid to use Hancock. As long as he's pitching the way we think he should pitch, which is aggressive and keeping the ball in the bottom of the strike zone for the most part, he can pitch in any part of the game.

Dave Duncan

 

I've seen John pitch. He is a guy that hitters didn't really like facing so we're hoping we can see the same here.

Dave Duncan

 

Ray may have recently suffered a little loss of confidence, and confidence comes by succeeding,

Dave Duncan

 Confidence

Delgado was very aggressive and swung at balls that weren't strikes. There was no need in that situation to throw him a strike. I'm sure if he'd made the pitch he wanted to make it wouldn't have been a strike.

Dave Duncan

 

If you do something he doesn't like, he just might flip you. Nolan Ryan was that way. Don Drysdale, I'm sure was that way. (Bob) Gibson was that way. Not that they're out of control. They're not out of control; they're in control. But they're going to win the game.

Dave Duncan