Leo Mazzone
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"Leo David Mazzone" is a former pitcher in minor league baseball and pitching coach in Major League Baseball. He worked with the Atlanta Braves' organization from to and was the pitching coach for the Baltimore Orioles from to .

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That's just not gonna cut it.

More of it's the mental approach, because the mental approach dictates your mechanics.

It's talent. It's a gift.

It takes guts. And I think it'd be harder than hell to control.

If you're locating your pitches, ... it doesn't matter.

I remember my first bullpen session with him. He was throwing the ball all over, and afterward he asks me, 'So, what did you think of that?' And I told him, 'To be honest with you, I didn't think it was very good.' So he says, 'Hmmm,' and the next day he hits every target he threw at. Every one. The son of a gun was testing me.

He wouldn't lay it out there. But he'd let them put something in play that he wouldn't let them put in play in a crucial situation.

Not any more than I usually do, ... I never was normal anyhow.

I think Mad Dog's got a great poker face. He wills himself to do things. There'd be a lot of other people that wouldn't even be pitching.