John Smoltz
speaker
546 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 1 Jul
John Smoltz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
When a parent says, what should I do with my, you know, I said, put him in the outfield.
Stop pitching.
He's got the gift.
What are we doing?
Why are you dominating at 12 and 13 and just pushing the body to the point where it's OK to have a Tommy John surgery?
I spent five minutes of my Hall of Fame speech on this topic and it fell on deaf ears.
And I think that's the reality of the why we need rule changes coming towards pitching to change the philosophy and change what we're asking guys to do.
If we don't get that, we have a.
a sport where the iconic and must-see TV starting pitchers are gone.
There's no matchups.
There's no, let me look and go to this game because I got this guy starting.
When you look around the league today, I can't find 10 guys that
that I would buy a ticket to if I'm a fan to go, I have to go see him pitch.
The reality is there's not that many that go six or seven innings anyways, and there's not that many that have the head up matchup where you go, that's a must ticket.
So baseball's compartmentalized the entity that was the strongest unit that got you to the post season.
That was the marquee matchup.
they've taken that away and used three pitchers for that one.
And now it's taking 12 pitchers to 14 pitchers between two teams to get through a game.
So if you're scrolling around going,
Yeah, Paul Skeens, I want to go see him pitch, but who is he going to pitch against?
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