Ottavino was not in the bullpen because he had not pitched well enough to deserve a spot on the roster. “Pat’s a great pitcher, but I’m, like, a scary pitcher, and I feel like in that matchup I could have been good,” Ottavino said last week. That told Ottavino his stuff was still plenty good enough to win — as long as he could use it for strikes. “slurve.”“I needed to have a little more direction of what to practice,” Ottavino said. “You only have so much practice time as a pitcher, you want to make sure you’re doing it right.

Source: New York Times May 12, 2018 14:26 UTC