He has a 2. He certainly won over Boston fans Saturday in a victory over Arizona. He entered with the bases loaded and no outs in the eighth inning. He struck out the side on 10 pitches all strikes :. Bases loaded, no outs in the 8th. Then BradZiegler entered the game. Ziegler has expressed his gratitude to Romanick, who now serves as the Mets minor league pitching coordinator.
At the same time, the idea was born, I've had multiple people in the A's system take credit for the idea. So I don't know where it actually came from. But at the same time, they were willing to put in the effort to try to teach it to me. That was the first time any team was making any commitment to me. He has wondered how far he would have made it had he stayed an overhand pitcher. I don't know how long I would have lasted and what my role would have been -- whether I would have been a starter, reliever, because I never was a reliever in the minors.
I was a starter until I switched. Ziegler had posted a 4. Or maybe that just says he signed with the Rockies, and the Rockies are weird. Not bad for a year-old with an mph fastball. Over the last three years, Ziegler is one of just 15 relievers to have thrown at least innings.
We can slice and dice things all kinds of ways, but the conclusion is basically always the same; Brad Ziegler has performed at the kind of level that should make him a household name. Of the 77 relievers who have thrown at least innings over the last three years, Ziegler ranks 70th in strikeout rate and 77th in fastball velocity.
This is the Bartolo Colon plan, or before him, Jamie Moyer. Brad Ziegler does the exact opposite of that. And yet, his walk rate during that time is basically league average. Z iegler made his major league debut on May 31, On August 14, he finally gave up a run. In fact, he shattered by more than 50 percent the previous record for most scoreless innings to start a career 25 , which George McQuillan set with the Phillies.
The streak made Ziegler a sensation for a time, but it never made him a phenom. Many considered the run as much of an anomaly as Ziegler himself, given that he was never supposed to reach the majors in the first place. He pitched well in , but in the California League playoffs a line drive fractured his skull and left him in the ICU for six days.
He also posted a 4. It took Ziegler a full year to accept that switching to a submarine delivery was his best chance at a major league career, but he finally made the change in the instructional league. In , the conventional — and marginal — starting pitching prospect was fully reborn as a submarining reliever. Ziegler delivered a 2. Yet he was immediately dominant in the minor leagues, and immediately and historically dominant in the majors.
He finished his rookie season with a 1. In and , he was merely very good instead of great, posting ERAs of 3. He has literally never been an ineffective major league pitcher. The art of submarine pitching is not a new one. Cy Young himself would occasionally fling one up there underhanded to mess with a hitter. For the first half of the 20th century, however, true submarine pitchers were a rarity. Jack Warhop, who made mediocre starts for the Yankees from to , was probably the first full-time submarine pitcher of the modern era.
Carl Mays, who infamously threw the pitch that killed Ray Chapman in , won games in his career. Elden Auker, who switched to an underhand delivery after a college football injury, pitched for 10 years in the majors, from to , and started for the Tigers in the World Series in and They were the only prominent pitchers who threw predominantly underhand until the late s.
Submarine pitchers became more prevalent around the time relief pitchers became more prevalent. As a class, submarine pitchers tend to have huge platoon splits, because the angle at which they release the ball is much easier for batters on the other side of the plate to pick up than for same-side hitters. This has always made the submarine starting pitcher a dicey proposition, but in relief, the submariner can be deployed based on the composition of the upcoming batters, and thus becomes a much more useful weapon.
In , a bespectacled year-old second-year pitcher named Dick Hyde pitched in 53 games, entirely in relief, and threw innings with a 1. After hurting his arm in and disappearing from the majors for the better part of five years, Abernathy returned as a submarine pitcher in , and over the next 10 years he averaged 91 innings with a 2.
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