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Johnson keeps his standards high, but the results don't match.(BASEBALL)
Randy Johnson offers this promise to those who say he no longer is among the game's elite pitchers: As soon as he truly believes he has fallen to mediocrity, he will retire.
"I'd walk away," he says. "Because then I would be a pitcher that I wouldn't want to be. And then I would be complacent, I wouldn't work as hard, I wouldn't be driven as much."
The 42-year-old Johnson began the week with a 5-4 record and a 5.14 ERA. When he was knocked out in the fourth inning by the Red Sox last week, it was his fourth bad start in five outings.
"It looked like I didn't have a clue out there," he told reporters "afterward.
In his next start, Johnson gave up three in the first inning in a loss to the A's.
Johnson has acknowledged he might never be the Big Unit of even just a couple years ago, but he won't stop trying to be a dominant starter.
"Look, I may not be the same kind of pitcher that I once was, but if I buy into that and start believing that, then what people think is bad now would only get worse," he said. "I could be very content by just knowing that I am going to win 15 to 17 games here and just go through the motions--but that's not me. I'm ...
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