Mike Burrows

There's no question about it.

If you walk into a Major League game and you don't have a fastball, it's not going to be a great day.

But the off-speed, I think, is only as good as I set it up with the fastball.

I think the

The numbers with the fastball got better once I made the addition of the two-seam, which happened after All-Star break, actually.

I think it was against Arizona.

It was my first quality start.

And I think that opened up a lot of things, too.

And that's something that I tried to build off of, something I'm building off of this offseason.

But the off-speed's only as good as I can set it up with that fastball.

If I can make it look like a fastball,

that's, that's kind of the name of the game.

If I can, it's fooling them, you know, it's making them think that it's something that it's not.

And they are good pitches.

I, I, I love my off speed, but I also love my fastball too.

I just think the addition of a second fastball is what I needed to, to make that a more of a weapon, you know, the velocity anyway, knowing that it might not be straight.

It's good.

It might run a little bit, you know, so.

Yeah, I think it's a big difference for a lot of guys now.

I think having two fastballs is, I mean, for starters anyway, is huge.