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Every outing is a learning experience.

- Drew Pomeranz

Learning Experience, Outing

After the first time I got traded - I was in the bullpen warming up for a game in Double A, and I got called back in and got traded - that was probably the, like, most crazy it could be. And once I got traded, the next time it got a little easier, and I got traded the next time - it's just part of it.

- Drew Pomeranz

Game, Next, Part, Next Time

Every time is a learning experience, and you pick up a little bit, and you learn things and try not to repeat them the next time.

- Drew Pomeranz

Next, Learning Experience, Next Time

In my bullpen sessions, I'm just trying to feel comfortable, throw strikes, and not get too complicated.

- Drew Pomeranz

Feel, Throw, Too, Bullpen

When you don't have one that you throw for strikes - they are good hitters - they can cancel out one pitch and go to another. Now I have four pitches. If one's not working, I've got three others. It makes the game totally different.

- Drew Pomeranz

Game, Cancel, Another, Hitters

I've always been fastball-curveball and really relied on that pitch, and when it goes away, it just totally changes how you attack hitters.

- Drew Pomeranz

Always, Away, Been, Hitters

If you don't feel right, you're going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, things that probably don't even need tweaking.

- Drew Pomeranz

Need, Going, Tweaking, Tweak

At the end of the day, it's me versus you, and I'm trying to get you out. If I can throw you six curveballs in a row and get you out, I'm going to do it all day.

- Drew Pomeranz

End Of The Day, Going, Six, Versus

Just flush it if something bad happens. That's the way I was raised to play baseball.

- Drew Pomeranz

Play, Bad, Raised, Play Baseball

Pretty excited to get to Boston. Great city and great team; they're in the race. They want to win here, and that's what I want to do.

- Drew Pomeranz

Boston, Here, Pretty, Great City

I don't mind walking guys as long as I don't give up runs.

- Drew Pomeranz

Walking, Mind, Give, Runs

My dad was a really big baseball guy who helped coach me and thought the game should be played the right way.

- Drew Pomeranz

Game, Thought, Big, Right Way

I haven't been on too many winning teams - in Oakland, we were in first place most of the year, and it was pretty fun, pretty exciting.

- Drew Pomeranz

Winning, Pretty, Been, Oakland

I have to do a better job of learning how to adjust.

- Drew Pomeranz

Better, How, Adjust, Better Job

There is stuff going on inside me. But I have always been told to go out there and pitch like you can't tell if you just struck somebody out or just gave up a home run. If something bad happens, I don't dwell on it. Just give me the ball and let me pitch.

- Drew Pomeranz

Bad, Tell, Been, Struck

I'm pretty prepared for anything. You could shove me out there in any situation - I've done it.

- Drew Pomeranz

Pretty, Prepared, Could, Shove

My dad taught me really early so I could take a lot of pressure off my elbow. Because the way I throw it, it doesn't crank up my elbow like everyone else's curveballs.

- Drew Pomeranz

Everyone, Like, Elbow, Crank

I was in the big leagues my first year in pro ball - pretty fast. I really don't think I had an understanding of what it meant to be a pitcher at that level at that point.

- Drew Pomeranz

Think, Big, Meant, Meant To Be

It hasn't been very normal in my career, but that first year in pro ball was the craziest year ever.

- Drew Pomeranz

Normal, Ball, Very, Craziest

Repeating my mechanics was difficult. I was always trying to do something different to make it click.

- Drew Pomeranz

Trying, Difficult, Always, Repeating

I just want to pitch well enough for us to win. In my mind, that's what it's all about.

- Drew Pomeranz

Mind, Want, About, Well Enough

Seven innings, three starts in a row, that's an improvement for me, and that's what I want to do: be out there in the game longer.

- Drew Pomeranz

Game, Want, Seven, Row

Ten minutes before starting a game in Akron, they said, 'Sit down, you're done.' Then I went to Arizona and sat there. There was no one to tell me what to do. I just had to wait.

- Drew Pomeranz

Game, Wait, Before, Starting

I've got four pitches now. I don't have to use them all the time, but I've got them in my pocket now for when it's necessary.

- Drew Pomeranz

Necessary, Use, Them, Pitches

The big thing will be having two pitches you can throw for strikes and developing a change-up, too.

- Drew Pomeranz

Big, Will, Having, Pitches

I don't think much. I'm just going to keep doing what I've been doing. Adjust on the fly if I have to.

- Drew Pomeranz

Doing, Think, Been, Adjust

The cutter has really helped me stay in the game longer and helped me get past the five, six innings a little more consistently.

- Drew Pomeranz

Game, Past, Six, Consistently

It's pretty frustrating waiting for anything.

- Drew Pomeranz

Waiting, Anything, Pretty, Frustrating

I was 11 years old and have the same curveball I have now. So I was literally striking everybody out. I always threw hard, and I was bigger than all the kids, so I would throw hard and throw that curveball, and no one could hit me.

- Drew Pomeranz

Out, Years, Everybody, Striking

You can be a two-pitch guy and be successful, but your room for error is very small.

- Drew Pomeranz

Small, Guy, Very, Error

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