"I don’t like pitchers who walk hitters. It puts pressure on your defense. The less walks you have, the better your chances of getting through innings. More walks lead to overworking your bullpen, sometimes just by having to get somebody up, just in case."

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Source : "Q&A: Kevin Towers, Diamondbacks GM". Interview with David Laurila, www.fangraphs.com. December 26, 2012.

Kevin Towers

#Defense Quotes #Pressure Quotes #Chance Quotes

“Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.”
“Spring is the Period Express from God. Among the other seasons Himself abide, But during March and April None stir abroad Without a cordial interview With God.”
“A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.”
“It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.”
“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
“I have been trained to throw many, many pitches.”
“No matter what the belief, if it had modestly said, 'This is our best thought, go on, think farther!' then we could have smoothly outgrown our early errors and long since have developed a religion such as would have kept pace with an advancing world. But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.”
“As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.”

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