Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.

I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.

But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.

His fastball command was a little erratic, but the command on his offspeed pitches was there, and his velocity was good. He got his work in. It did not set him back.

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.