Across his 23-year MLB career, the first-ballot Hall of Famer stacked up 355 wins; four Cy Young awards; more than. And, you know, I told him, Coop! On May 17, 1988, Greg Maddux threw 10 shutout innings at Wrigley Field against the St. Louis Cardinals. In the last month and half of the season, batters hit .347 against Maddux, he walked 19 batters in 27 1/3 innings and the Cubs lost all seven games he appeared in. So, yes, stealing strikes sounds exactly like a Maddux thing. I never thought I could say this. But Maddux said that the bigger reason for the glove coverage, and the impetus for its widespread usage around the league, was Curtis Pride, an outfielder with terrific plate discipline who broke in with the Montreal Expos in 1993. Maddux was only 23 . I want to be back. For instance, in 1995, he started off hitters with strikes more than 63 percent of the time. "The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Yes, the pitcher and the catcher are talking to each other to strategize how they attack the hitters and I can't believe how much I love this.pic.twitter.com/wUTdk2mrgN. It wasnt Sandbergs fault that the ball took an absurd and unpredictable hop. Well, here's a 42-year-old Greg Maddux, in what. When I read that, my eyebrows became erect. When they're in a jam, a lot of pitcherstry to throw harder. Rick Sutcliffe, who is Madduxs longtime friend and ex-teammate with the Cubs, once toldStark that one of the reasons Maddux started covering his conversations was because, Greg was a guy who used some profanity from time to time. There is a legend that in 2006, his Dodgers teammate Brad Penny, who was coming off a game where he got badly roughed up by the Mets, asked Maddux if he would call the pitches for him from the dugout the next time out. The cards were a tough pull . To find how many hitters faced a 30 count against Greg Maddux, we must look at the row labeled After 30. This brings us to the correct number 644. In their regular-season battles, Clark was 11 for 46 (.239) against Maddux with one homer, six walks, 13 strikeouts and a .709 OPS. " The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence. You can be more consistent with your mental approach, the things you do physically on the mound. 6th inning: Two groundouts, one a double play I just throw my fastball (to) both sides of the plate and change speed every now and then. In Madduxs mind and this is important to know when looking at his career the words pitching and confidence were practically synonyms. Greg Maddux figured out early, and never forgot, that his next pitch was actually the next turn of the (baseball) card. He suggested it may have started with Mark Fidrych, but was mostly kidding, since Fidrych spoke so demonstrably to the baseball that you could read his lips from space. An interview request to the Hall of Fame media relations department,sheepishly wondering if Maddux might be willing to talk about Clark, was answered quickly and enthusiastically. Understanding the situations of the game. The right-hander, who went 35-19 with a 3.36 ERA in 66 career starts against the Mets . He knew it in his heart as he stood on the mound the changeup was the pitch. I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. Exactly, Clark said. Gwynn struck out 434 times in 10,232 plate appearances. I'm just the opposite. Kasten made the vow not only out of gratitude toward Maddux--who pitched for the Braves for 11 seasons--but also as a fan of baseball history. Nobodys watching the minor-league games. Merely said, the Greg Maddux On The Mound With . Jan 5, . In fact, Maddux saw Gwynn more than anyone. Wow. Across his 23-year MLB career, the first-ballot Hall of Famer stacked up 355 wins; four Cy Young awards; more than 3,000 strikeouts; and a sky-scraping WAR of 104.8. "I went (to New York) to sign with the Yankees," Maddux said on David Cone's Toeing the Slab podcast. You can always do more of what you are doing well and try to be as consistent as you can be. You tell a legendary story about Koufax, and it will involve a game, surely a World Series game, when he was utterly invincible. Alicea thought the ball hit a hole of some kind. You might think Maddux could have written a textbook in pitching efficiency that day, but actually, the game was probably moving too quick. But in this case, the Cardinals pitchers led by John Tudor matched him and the game was scoreless going into the 11th. In 236 of them, he didn't allow a walk. One medical emergency could have dramatically changed the landscape of baseball in the 1990s. The. In this version of mound history, word circulated around the league quickly, and by early 1990 pitchers were taking preventative measures. I remember my brother (Mike) told me about that: Yeah, he always reads lips when the guys go out there, then tells the coach or the manager exactly what they said., When I started (covering my mouth), I started doing it because of Curtis Pride., Several baseball scribes from The Athletic tossed this question to people on their beat: When do you remember pitchers league-wide becoming vigilant about hiding their conversations on the mound?. I guess I'll have to get a second job. -- Greg Maddux, I would love to try to win another game. So we have two at-bats now, and he has not come in on me.. I always felt like you cant win the game on seven or eight pitches, but you sure can lose it. The Baseball Hall of Fame spent 11 . Then he went to St. Louis and pitched well again. So how many batters probably saw a 30 count in 1986 and 1987? The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence. According to Bill Madden of the New York Daily News, the Yankees and then-GM Gene Michael not only made Maddux an offer but also promised him more than the Braves did -- $37.5 million over that same five-year span. So Im looking right at the conference on the mound to figure out whats gonna happen.. Theres a legend that once when he was with the Cubs, Maddux just started screaming at Atlantas David Justice for no apparent reason. Maybe its that baseball isnt always fair? Most hitters will take that strike, Maddux said. That would make the count 0-1 and do you know what batters hit against Maddux in their careers when behind 0-1? For more details, review our, a fantastic quote that Maddux once had about Gwynn, Seahawks considering interesting strategy with 1st-round pick, Patrick Cantlay shares why no-cut golf is a good thing. He kept going he got a complete-game victory against the Expos. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention. Maddux picking to the Braves on a five-year, $28-million deal crushed the Yankees, who were coming off a 76-86 season that was their fourth losing one in a row. And then it becomes the big story, Clark recalled. But for a proper tribute to No. I look forward to another good year next year. I loved those guys and so many others, but Maddux was a breed apart for reasons that, even now, Im not entirely sure I can put into words. We could spend all day listing Gwynns mind-boggling career achievements. Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends, This website or its third-party tools use cookies, which are necessary to its functioning and required to achieve the purposes illustrated in the cookie policy. Hundreds of pitchers . 1. Some dont. I used to read the lips of the pitcher and the pitching coach when I was in the batters box.. Maddux was the ace of a Braves team that dominated the division throughout most of the 1990s and early 2000s. I pitched just good enough to lose. -- Greg Maddux, I take golf trips with my brother or with friends. I thought, What is he doing? But this man has been reading lips for a long time before I even came over there (to the Giants). He is the treasurer for the Hemond-Delhi Chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and also is a USSF and AIA soccer referee. I'd rather try and not win than not try at all. This year, if I throw 100 pitches, Im throwing between 20 and 30 curveballs. I want to be back. He was 42 years old. In reality, though, he held all the cards all the time. He was the most coveted free agent of the offseason, and the Yankees were gearing up for a return to prominence after not making the playoffs in over a decade. I pitched just good enough to lose., I take golf trips with my brother or with friends. Peter Morris included that anecdote in his book, A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball and went on to say that when Allen returned to the U.S. in 1991, the practice had already caught on in the states. But they had them. Every day we present the best quotes! 177 of those were intentional walks, the meme reads. Maddux did. I mean, you start thinking about the number of pitches you throw in a game and work backward to eliminate the small handful of pitches that end up beating you mind-blowing. It dropped to 4.9% in 1993 and was only higher than 5% in one of his remaining seasons (2002). Order the book at store.bookbaby.com. The deal almost wasn't. Rodgers took a few days to contemplate his future and, In hindsight, Ja Morants new endorsement deal could have picked a much better launch date. We usually go to Pebble or Bandon Dunes. Key was no Maddux, but he won 35 games over his first two seasons in the Bronx and . So mind-blowing, in fact, that it seems too good to be true. I really do. -- Greg Maddux, I daydream just like everybody else. Nit-picky? It probably still is being shared like wildfire because its a lot of fun to hear people say yep, he sure was great! when they read these stats. Me, I try to locate better., Consistency is something you can always improve on. It comes down to understanding the game, he said. There were 310 batters that faced Maddux in 30 counts, but the creator shouldve added at least two more. I'll tell you what I throw. During the offseason, hed gone down to pitch in Venezuela and he had worked with pitching coach Dick Pole on a more devastating curveball. There was a meme of Maddux floating around the internet for a hot second. In the first at-bat, (Brett) Butler was on second base and I hit a sinker away to left-center field for a double, and Butler scored. Now, you will ask, what is the lesson to take from that? When (Pride) was with Montreal, he could read the lips from the dugout if pitchers didnt cover their mouths. Instead of having to look over 17 inches of home plate, Im looking over four inches of home plate, and Im looking for one pitch in one little spot. One of the most useful research tools on Baseball Reference is the Splits data. Sandberg thought the ball might have hit the lip where the grass and the infield dirt meet, but reporters didnt think so. There is no special food or anything like that, I just try to make quality pitches and try to be prepared each time I go out there. -- Greg Maddux, What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching. -- Greg Maddux, The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence., The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. I really do. Per The Posts Joel Sherman, the Yankees early-90s mess made the franchise undesirable and was the reason for Madduxs pivot to Atlanta for less money. Maddux said on David Cone's Toeing the Slab podcast, advanced a slightly different version of events, According to Bill Madden of the New York Daily News, Unsigned FA Jurickson Profar to play in WBC, Orioles, Pirates play final half-inning without umpires, MLB hires three to ramp up 'local media' department, Report: Padres sign Rougned Odor to minor-league deal, 10 MLB positional battles ahead of Opening Day, How the Dodgers can replace Gavin Lux after injury, Maddux says he planned on signing with Yankees in 1992, Dodgers SS Gavin Lux tears ACL, will miss entire season. In the evolution of mound visit paranoia, the case of Clark vs. Maddux still ranks among the most-cited events. The pitches were nothing special, Bernie Williams insisted. Maddux did face 20,421 batters over the course of his 23-year career. 1987 DONRUSS #36 GREG MADDUX RC CUBS HOF PSA 10 DNA AUTO 10 B1022074-408. Plus, Im beating to the outside part of the plate. Keep in mind that this data only goes back to 1988, so we must adjust batters faced to 19,576 and intentional walks to 162. Major League Baseball pitchers are currently on pace to annihilate the all-time record for no-hitters thrown in a single season. Then in late December Maddux surprisingly and without warning accepted arbitration. Privacy Policy. I guess I'll have to get a second job. Maddux indeed later took up covering his face with his glove during mound conversations. Rod Allen, the former player and broadcaster, once told a radio audience that he saw the glove-talking practice while playing in Japan in the late 1980s. You kind of go there to sign a contract and everything.". Maddux following the final season of his first Cubs stint in 1992 was a free agent, and as the reigning Cy Young winner in the NL he was highly coveted. That's what pitchers have to do to win games, I could probably throw harder if I wanted, but why? The number of plays a pitcher makes after he's thrown the pitch pales in comparison to the numb. No. 97.2 - Greg Maddux was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014, on his first ballot, receiving 97.2% of the possible votes. Yes, Nestor Cortes raised a glove to shield his face when he spoke, because thats the custom whenever pitchers are protecting vital information on the mound. He worked through things in spring training, and by Opening Day he did feel more positive and self-assured. What do I do now? He had grown to like that pitch a lot. Subscribe to The Athletic for in-depth coverage of your favorite players, teams, leagues and clubs. Maybe 1% of it gets peeled back with this fact he would rather you not know: Over the past four seasons Maddux has been the greatest righthanded pitcher since Walter. I remember it was howling out pretty good. Clearly, things worked out fine for the Yankees, who won four championships during Madduxs 11-year tenure with the Braves. So what does it mean to steal a strike? Hes not bragging now, and he certainly didnt brag then. Doing the math shows us that only 3.2% of all hitters to face Greg Maddux from 1988 onward saw a 30 count, and one fourth of those were intentional walks. I used to circle his start dates on my calendar; I never did that for another pitcher, not even Pedro Martnez in his prime, not even Dwight Gooden in 1985, not even Max Scherzer when he was throwing near no-hitters and perfect games every other start. He had to be able to see someone where he could see exactly what they said and I guarantee, he was like, forget that, they aint reading my lips.. I just throw my fastball (to) both sides of the plate and change speed every now and then. He is the author of A Complete History of the Major League Baseball Playoffs and has covered the Arizona Diamondbacks for Last Word on Baseball since 2019. Theyre a whole other thing. One year we went to Hawaii. Maddux, famously, has a near-photographic memory for pitch sequencing, but he was in no position to confirm or deny much about how he approached Clark in Game 1 of the NLCS. You told me what was coming, man!'. The men battled back and forth until the count was full. Maddux is a master of strategically timed nose picking, sidling up to an unsuspecting rookie in the shower and urinating on the kid's leg, and inventing just the right nickname for a teammate . Thanks to Baseball-reference.coms Play Index (which is totally worth your subscription dollars), we can definitively see that of his 177 intentional walks, 153 of them came in 30 counts. There are a lot of shots in golf I can't hit, but I try to hit them anyway. And Maddux throws me a 3-2 changeup and I sort of hooked it out to right-center for a homer. There's only one surprise: Greg Maddux, who won three Cy Young Awards and reached the postseason 10 times as a member of the Atlanta Braves, will not go into the Hall as an Atlanta Brave. But no, it was Greg Maddux putting ink to paper. 177 of those were intentional walks," the meme reads. The thing I am trying to keep in mind is that relying on my past performance will not make me win my next game, it'll only get in my way., I'd rather try and not win than not try at all, Oh, poor me (jokingly, after being told that Randy Johnson & Pedro Martinez would make more in 2003 than he would). And the first pitch was a fastball in, Clark said. The Canon Photocards were sent out to fans who corresponded with Cubs players via mail, this was done both in the 1987 and 1988 seasons. Among pitchers who debuted in 1920 or later, Gibson, Rip Sewell and Greg Maddux are the only three to tally at least 10 stolen bases. Thats just finding a weakness from an opponent and using it to your advantage.. Maddux left hitters with an "I-am-stupid, kick-me" sign on their backs. He threw a three-hit shutout to kick things off in Atlanta. Still, he knows Clarks version of events, about how the first baseman glimpsed the coming attractions straight from the pitchers mouth. No, he wanted to do them because he thought it was fun and silly and, anyway, he didnt want to wreck the show. Wet grass is slippery -- Greg Maddux, I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound -- Greg Maddux, You're not going to win by automatically going out there. That's it. I mean, we (pitchers) never even thought about it until he started doing it. That's it. No, he is not haunted by the moment. However, these statistics presented as facts are not correct. The Giants led 4-3 and had the bases loaded with two out. Writer Jason Lukehart invented the statistic in 2012 and named it after his favorite baseball player, Greg Maddux. But, Kaat pointed out that he still held the record for oldest modern pitcher to ever steal a base. So, I throw a breaking ball for a strike on the outside half, hes not swinging, Ive evened up the count. That's what you do to pitch. Greg Maddux with 10. As mentioned earlier, it is impossible to know. Cubs legend and Hall of Famer Greg Maddux didn't blow hitters away on the mound. Is there even a lesson? In terms of strategic mistakes, Zimmers biggest one was standing a mere 5-foot-9. In all, this project will contain roughly as many words as Moby Dick. Yes, we know its nutty. Some said it was an earthquake, others just leaky pipes, while some even reported seeing phantom members of the baseball world floating about in their bedrooms. Braves fans? He was terrific in Des Moines, but was even worse when they called him back. So I was always looking to eliminate as many of those pitches as I could.. And, in baseball terms: Thank God I didnt miss it.. On Wednesday, Powerade announced a new partnership with the Memphis Grizzlies star Morant, who will serve as the face of their rebranded product. Only 644 (that we know of; we are missing data for 1,166 batters) saw a 30 count and 153 came on intentional walks. Greg Maddux had every intention to sign with the Yankees in 1992, but he says he never received a contract offer because one of the Yankee front office members had a heart attack(via @ToeingTheSlab) pic.twitter.com/fz6qo05A8J, I got on the plane, went home, we had a layover in Chicago and I remember landing in Chicago and calling Scott [Boras, Madduxs agent], and he said the Braves were able to make me an offer. But the Hall . The key to pitching is to have the ability to throw a strike when they're taking and throw a ball when the hitter is swinging. Maddux is standing on the mound and Zimmer has his back to me, Clark recalled. There is the Sean Manaea who threw a no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox in 2018. It was mesmerizing. Another example: Lets say Maddux started a hitter off with a ball. Greg Maddux, who was a key . The frustration is not there, because I'm still learning. You can always do more of what you are doing well and try to be as consistent as you can be., When people say (nice) things you take them as compliments and it's nice, but it won't help you win your next game. Stealing strikes. Between their success and trades of, Its amazing how quickly those on the PGA Tour have done a 180 regarding cuts in tournament golf. Do I even need to tell you what happened? Atlanta Braves pitchers Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux taught us that in a commercial 20 years ago and it still rings true today. That's what pitchers have to do to win games. The PGA Tour has made some changes to designated events. On Dec. 9, 1992, with Maddux coming off his first Cy Young Award following a 20-11, 2.18 ERA season as a Cub, the Braves inked the right-hander to a five-year, $28 million deal. Maddux said he knew it was time to retire when he threw a pitch at Dodger Stadium in 2008, executed everything perfectly, peeked at the scoreboard and saw 82 miles per hour. Greg Maddux Simple, Two, Special 19 Copy quote Consistency is something you can always improve on. Why do you think? Maddux said. And yet again, he felt better about himself. In 2002, Maddux posted 16 wins, becoming only the second player after Cy Young to record fifteen or more wins for fifteen consecutive years. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention. -- Greg Maddux, Regardless of where you're pitching, regardless of what goes on before or after your game, you still have to be ready. -- Greg Maddux, There are a lot of shots in golf I can't hit, but I try to hit them anyway. Now say "You'll look the fool and like it!" when Greg Maddux takes the mound He'll get ahead with first-pitch strikes, hit spots to suit his fancy You'll hit like such a little girl . Maddux thought it hit a ghost. Whether or not Maddux actually received an official offer from the Yankees, it's a tantalizing hypothetical for Yankees fans. Baseball News, Analysis, History, Schedule, Rumors. This may sound pretty typical for Maddux in his heyday the guy threw a lot of shutout. The deal almost wasn't. The Yankees had offered the right-hander $6 million more, with then-general manager Gene Michael saying, "He's the best one out there. In '92, scout Chuck Koney gave his fastball a '7' on the 2-8 scouting scale, which means that his fastball was sitting around 95 mph. But Maddux utterly enthralled me. I will be back., I look forward to another good year next year. He wanted to stay in. Viewers got to hear a pitcher and catcher strategize on how to attack a hitter to listen in on precisely the conversation every dugout lip-reader is hoping to decode. 2004-2023 CBS Interactive. To demonstrate, Hudler silently said the word fastball, but his lips left no doubt. I only know one way to pitch. Then the legend of lip-reading spread by word of mouth. He batted .650 with a .682 on-base percentage and a 1.200 slugging percentage in propelling the Giants to a 4-1 series victory and their first World Series appearance since 1962. Opening day he did feel more positive and self-assured AUTO 10 B1022074-408 all listing... And forth until the count was full of baseball in the Bronx and, lot... 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