Alex Cora
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
All of a sudden, he was better from one side than the other one, and the other one was elite before he...
He took him to switch it, and he's like, time out, you know?
I need to continue to be elite at what I do and be whatever it is from the other side, you know?
And little by little, he kept working, understanding that this is my strong side.
I got to keep going.
This is where I make my money.
So with Brian, I believe we have paid so much attention to the other pitches that we thought we mastered the change-up, and this is me talking for him.
Probably it's not the...
It's not how he feels about it, but this is how I see it, that we forgot about the feel of the changeup.
That's something Ranger had to talk to him about it.
It happened to him in player development with the Phillies, that this is my bread and butter.
And then all of a sudden, oh, you got to do this, you got to do that.
And all of a sudden, the reps for the pitch weren't there, and he lost it for a little bit.
And now he makes sure, like, yeah, we can keep getting better, understanding that this is what makes me
a big league pitcher.
So hopefully we can get back to that.
It's a lot different against lefties.
He can throw the change up against righties, but he was a good pitcher last year.
He was a solid pitcher two years ago.
If we take away the last month of the season, the last few starts,