Now, when I knew what kind of pitch was coming, I no longer needed to swing at every fastball or alter my stride to hit an off-speed pitch. If I knew a changeup was coming, I didn’t think about it—I simply watched for a slower pitch in a specific location. If the ball was in that location, the swing happened on its own. I wasn’t thinking, just watching. Over the remaining ten years of my career, close to half of the pitchers I faced (including more than a few Hall of Famers) gave away their pitches.
