List of Submarine Pitchers

The following is a list of submarine pitchers, those who throw at or below sidearm delivery. These pitchers are typically relievers as they often have extreme platoon splits and are therefore less effective as starters.

A chronological List of Submarine/Underhand/Low-Sidearm Pitchers

• Cy Young – occasionally
• Joe McGinnity – alternated between overhand and underhand
• Rube Foster – occasionally
• Three Finger Brown – occasionally
• Ed Willett – limited use of underhand floater, many thought he should do it all the time
• Chief Bender – occasionally
• Jack Warhop
• By Speece
• Erskine Mayer – underhand and sidearm
• Guy Morton – occasionally
• Carl Mays – only true submariner between Warhop and Auker
• Art Nehf – occasionally
• Slim Harriss – low sidearm fastball
• Sheriff Blake – occasionally after 1928
• Satchel Paige – occasional
• Hod Lisenbee – occasionally
• Clint Brown – submarine screwball
• Ad Liska
• Chief Hogsett
• Bobo Newsom – may have been converted away from it early in career
• Pat Caraway – submarine knuckleball
• Tex Carleton – sidearm
• Elden Auker
• Sam Nahem
• Ken Raffensberger – experimented with arm angles
• Dizzy Trout – occasionally
• Murry Dickson – occasionally
• Russ Christopher
• Ted Wilks – occasionally late in career
• Bill Werle – occasionally underhand
• Dick Hyde
• Ted Abernathy – after 1957
• Ken Johnson – occasionally
• Andy Hassler – occasionally
• Kent Tekulve – 1980’s revival starter
• Dan Quisenberry
• Bob Long
• Terry Leach
• Mark Eichhorn – after 1983 injury
• Steve Olin
• Steve Reed – low sidearm
• Brad Clontz
• Mike Myers
• Chad Bradford
• Byung-Hyun Kim
• Mike Venafro
• Kelly Wunsch
• Eddie Oropesa
• Bret Prinz
• Brad Ziegler
• Adam Cimber
• Tyler Rogers
• Ben Rowen

-- from the The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers