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Andrew Brown, RHP, reliever
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Brown deals a 90mph fastball and two different breaking pitches. His slider is a tight breaker in the mid-upper 80s, while his curveball is a hard, downward breaking pitch in the low-80s. Brown also mixes in changeups to LHs. Brown has also been traded for Milton Bradley twice. 7/1/08 CSJ
*fastball(87-92), slider(84-87), curve(82), changeup(80-82)
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Brad Ziegler, RHP, reliever
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Ziegler is a sidearmer. He throws from a 1/4 arm angle, making his fastball get decent movement and giving the batter a release point they aren't used to. Predictably, as a sidearmer, he also throws a sweeping slider. 8/8/08 CSJ
*fastball(82-85), slider(72)
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Greg Smith, LHP, starter
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Greg Smith is lefthanded and relies on his fastball. He'll move his fastball inside and out. Smith will then use the basic lefthander's strategy of throwing his breaking ball to LHs and changeup to RHs. Smith continues to put up solid numbers in '08, and with his decent fastball he has a chance for continued success. Strangely, Smith's curveball, his least used offering, looks like a plus pitch to me. 7/21/08 CSJ
*fastball(84-90), changeup(76-80), slider(79-82), curve(74)
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Dallas Braden, LHP, starter/reliever
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Braden has a fastball and extremely soft changeup (low-mid 70s). His slider is standard, around 78mph. 7/21/08 CSJ
*fastball(87-91), changeup(73-76), slider(78)
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Lenny DiNardo, LHP, reliever/starter
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DiNardo throws a strange ball. His fastballs move all over the place. It looks like he's throwing a cutter or slider on every fastball. His changeup is fairly straight, but can also cut sometimes. He throws an obvious curveball as his breaking ball. 7/21/08 CSJ
*fastball(81-86), changeup(76-78), curve(69-74)
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Jerry Blevins, LHP, reliever
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Blevins throws a good fastball that seems to rise as it approaches home plate. He also has a big breaking curve that he can drop in for strikes. Blevins has shown a changeup as his third pitch. 7/21/08 CSJ
*fastball(90-93), curve(70-74), changeup
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Alan Embree, LHP, reliever
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Embree has become a valuable LH reliever. He still has good velocity on his fastball and throws a good slider. His slider can break across the plate hard when thrown well. He may mix in a rare changeup. 8/8/08 CSJ
*fastball(92-95), slider(79-83), changeup
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Sean Gallagher, RHP, starter
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Gallagher is an old-school pitcher. He beats the strike zone with tons of fastballs and breaks off big curveballs to get Ks. He'll operate with these two pitches most of the time. His third and fourth pitches are a slider and a basic changeup. 8/8/08 CSJ
*fastball(89-95), curve(73-76), slider(83-87), changeup(80)
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Santiago Casilla, RHP, reliever
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Casilla is a hard thrower with a tight slider. He'll primarily use these two pitches to both LHs and RHs. His changeup has high velocity, and even touched 92mph this season when his fastball was hitting 96mph. 8/8/08 CSJ
*fastball(93-96), slider(87-89), changeup(89-92)
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Huston Street, RHP, closer
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Street has a very low 3/4 or sidearm delivery. His fastball velocity has dropped slightly since his first callup, now sitting around 90mph. His slider is short and tight, slightly different than the sweeping sidearm sliders we usually see. He also throws changeups that sink hard. Huston has been closing baseball games since his freshman year at Texas. 8/8/08 CSJ
*fastball(89-91), slider(83-85), changeup(80-81)
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Justin Duchscherer, RHP, starter
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Duchscherer is a breaking ball pitcher. He throws tons of sliders to all batters and all parts of the plate. He routinely attempts to backdoor LHs with it and even frontdoor RHs. As a reliever this pitch was slightly tighter and more like a cutter. Duchsherer also throws a big curveball that can work because it is so much slower than his other pitches. His fastball is only around 85mph nowadays, but he can run it arm-side or cut it glove-side at times with excellent command. In Duchscherer's 7/20 start against the Yankees, he did not throw any changeups. 8/11/08 CSJ
*fastball(84-88), slider(78-82), curve(66-70)
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