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Originally posted by nestajones
In real life, what do you rate when watching a pitcher? "Stuff," control, velocity. What else?
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As I stated before, I think that the mental make-up of a pitcher has a lot to do with his success. Look at what happened to Rick Ankiel a few years ago. He had great "stuff" but suffered a mental breakdown and couldn't find the strike zone. And I'm an Anaheim guy so I'll give you a local example, Ramon Ortiz, has wonderful "stuff", good velocity, good control, but he gets too emotional and starts overthrowing everything when something goes wrong.
~~Christopher Martin (not the lead singer of COLDPLAY!)