Shunsuke Watanabe of Japan's Chiba Lotte Marines is known as "Mr. Past submariners include Ted Abernathy, Elden Auker, Mark Eichhorn, Kent Tekulve and Dan Quisenberry. Perhaps the most notable was Carl Mays, whose unorthodox delivery possibly contributed to the fatal beaning of Ray Chapman. There are not many hard-throwing submarine pitchers. One exception is Byung-Hyun Kim, who started 87 games in his Major League career. Also, the unusual bending motion required to pitch effectively as a submariner means that many submariners develop back problems, and lack the stamina required to be used as starting pitchers. Thus, most young baseball pitchers are encouraged to throw overhand. The technique is unknown to most coaches simply because the vast majority of pitchers use overarm motions. The rarity of submarine pitchers is sometimes attributed to the different technique required, rather than it being an inferior pitching style. The converse is true for left-handed submarine pitchers: a fastball from southpaw submariner Mike Myers would break towards left-handed hitters, but away from right-handed hitters. However, against a left-handed hitter, the pitch would break away from the batter, allowing him to wait on the ball for an easy hit. From the view of the pitcher towards home plate, a submarine style fastball tends to break toward the right of the plate towards the batter. However, a lot of their breaking balls seem to float to an opposite-side batter.įor example, assume that a right-handed submarine pitcher were to face a right-handed hitter. Pitches thrown via a submarine motion are also generally more difficult for hitters to see relative to pitches thrown via an overhand motion as such, they are the toughest pitches for same-side batters to hit (if the submarine pitcher is right-handed, then he or she is the most difficult for a right-handed hitter to hit). The pitch has a tendency to break more than one delivered with an overhand motion. Some submarine pitchers deliver the ball while almost scraping their knuckles on the dirt. In baseball, a submarine is a pitch delivered with an underhand motion.
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