Don Sutton
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"Donald Howard Sutton" is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) right-handed pitcher. In the majors, he played 23 years for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim/California Angels. He won a total of 324 games, 58 of them shutouts and five of them one-hitters, and he is seventh on baseball's all-time strikeout list with 3,574.

Sutton was born in a small town in Alabama. He attended high school and community college in Florida before entering professional baseball. After a year in the minor leagues, Sutton joined the Dodgers. Beginning in 1966, he was in the team's starting pitching rotation with Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Claude Osteen. Sixteen of Sutton's 23 MLB seasons were spent with the Dodgers. He registered only one 20 win season, but he earned double-digit wins in almost all of his seasons.

Sutton entered broadcasting after his retirement as a player. He has worked in this capacity for several teams and has worked with the Atlanta Braves since 2009. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998.

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People ask all the time, 'What's he done with his life?' ... He's enjoyed it.

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I think the pitching situation is a huge, huge difference. But I also think the youth of that team is an asset. We had a lot of guys with a lot of scars on them.

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If you want to be good at anything, sometimes you have to walk the edge.

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These guys can sweep somebody with these three pitchers.

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I think you form a bond of different personalities where even without saying a word you challenge each other to be good. You don't want to be the weak link in the chain.

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There are a lot of similarities to that situation. I remember sitting on the plane with Bob Boone, and he said, 'Sometimes when you let the air out of a balloon, it's hard to pump it up again.' That's how we felt.

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I think it's going to be very difficult. Are guys talented enough? Oh, heck yes.

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It has nothing to do with age, ... I think it has to do with the makeup of the person.

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If you didn't keep a win-loss total, he'd still want to go out there. The guy wants the responsibility that comes with being as starting pitcher. 'This is my job.' I love that about Roger Clemens.

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