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New Arms of the Week: September 7-13
A week after the bumper crop, only four pitchers made their Major League debuts last week. If Tim Lincecum's back wasn't balky, it would've been three. Madison Bumgarner was called-up to start in plac...
New Arms of the Week: Roster Expansion Bumper Crop
Nine rookie debuts marked the first six days of September. Brad Kilby # MPH PFX_X PFX_Z Fastball 19 93 7 8 Slider 5 84 -1 1 Carlos Carrasco # MPH PFX_X PFX_Z Curveball 7 7...
New Arms of the Week: Last of August
Closing out August, and adding a day to the "week", we have four rookie pitchers who debuted in the final week of August. Armando Gabino - threw some long relief made a brief start and was sent back ...
New Arms of the Week - August 10-16
Six rookies got the call and made their major league debuts this week. This will mostly be a run-down of their basic PITCHf/x numbers, but I have a few observations - despite the small samples. ...
New Arms of the Weekend: Tuesday Night Starters
Since the most recent edition of New Arms covered a good chunk of last week already, I'm left with what amounts to a preview of two of Tuesday's starters. After being thrown to the wolves in the Bronx...
New Arms of the Week and a Half
Instead of just last week's rookie pitching debuts, I'm including Monday through Wednesday's debuts as well. Hello, Neftali Feliz. This is a pretty big batch of pitchers this time around, led by Feliz...
New Arms of the Week: Five Righties
Five right-handed rookies made their big league debuts between July 20 and 26. Flight paths and backgrounds after the jump. Pitch type key after this table (smaller than small sample size warning); cl...
New Arm of the Week: Mat Latos
Mat Latos went from Futures to Majors in a week. Latos' debut with the Padres came on Sunday, making him the only rookie pitcher to make his debut in the weekend after the All Star break. Latos throw...
New Arms of the Week: End of the First Half
The week of July 6 had more rookie pitching debuts than recent weeks. We got five new arms, not to mention the gaggle of minor leaguers in the Futures Game. Spin movement graphs and flight paths after...
New Arms of the Week - Fu-Te Ni and Clayton Mortensen
Two newbies took the mound for major league teams last week. One of them is still in the majors. Clayton Mortensen was called-up by the Cardinals to work three poor innings. Fu-Te Ni, on the other han...
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