Beginning Quote by Gerrit Cole

I literally love Justin Verlander.

— Jose Altuve

The right-hander is throwing up in the bullpen.

— Mike Shannon

I would love to say that I have an eighth-inning guy, a seventh-inning guy, a left-handed guy, a long guy.

— Brad Ausmus

I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.

— Zack Greinke

There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a…

— Jacob deGrom

Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.

— Tris Speaker

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

— Early Wynn

All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the…

— Casey Stengel

I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed.…

— Otis Rush

If you want to aspire to be any pitcher in the game right now, it's probably Madison Bumgarner. I really keep a close eye…

— Tyler Beede

How lucky have we been that the face of baseball for the past two decades, through ups and downs, has been Derek Jeter.

— Bud Selig

Derek Jeter is by far the best baseball player I've seen - I've seen.

— Darrelle Revis