Back in the Minnesota Twins’ 2000s run of dominance, outfielder Torii Hunter was asked about the opponent that scared him the most. After thinking about it for a little bit Hunter brought up the name of Roger Clemens, who was one of his era’s most dominant pitchers.
“Every time I looked at the lineup when I was in Minnesota, and I’d think ‘Oh no, Roger Clemens again?'” Hunter told Doug Mead of Bleacher Report in 2011. “He was pretty much in my head. He threw his split-fingered to me all the time, never really threw his fastball, it was all splitters, so I was out.