Chase Anderson trusts in his ability, believes in his stuff, knows he can succeed at the major-league level. He’s done it before, he said, and can do it again.
But there have been moments this season when that confidence has waned, times when one hard-hit ball follows another, and suddenly Anderson, the Diamondbacks’ second-year right-hander, wonders about the quality of his pitches, wonders if anything short of a perfectly located offering will get the job done.
“It gets to you,” Anderson said. “It gets in your head a little bit. Fear creeps in. I’ve learned a lot from talking to the coaches and the mental coaches that you can’t let that creep in.