Yankees pitcher Clarke Schmidt, who is in a spring training battle for the fifth spot in the rotation, takes a timeout for some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby.
A: So much of his mentality and the way he carried himself in his career, that fierceness, that Mamba Mentality, that always being on the attack. Being-where-your-feet-are type mentality. … His “Muse” documentary, I’ve probably seen it 200 times, just being able to just always rewatching it and kind of seeing that mentality and how he went about his day-to-day and the work that he put in is kind of the same way that I carry myself.
Q: You once said: “In five years I would say I see myself being the No. 1 for the New York Yankees.” and get weaker contact against lefties. And then also, we started to find that metrically it’s such a good pitch, and it’s also gonna play to righties, too. Being able to show like two different fastballs, being able to sneak the ball in on righties and then also throw that cutter up and elevate it or down and away, being able to just show two planes.
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