THE SHOW: Spectacular MLB Debuts

Jason Jennings (August 23, 2001). All he did was hit a home run and pitch a complete game shutout at Coors Field .

Depends on your threshold for spectacular, but Johnny Cueto's debut last week was up there.

Cueto's debut was the best since.... Daisuke's the year before.

Please to list the stats supporting these exciting feats, if poss. Pithing line?

kevin kouzmanoff: Kouzmanoff is the only player in Major League Baseball history to hit a grand slam on his first pitch seen.

Dates and stats?

U make aspie moderator ;_;

Cueto's was a good bit better:

7 IP 1 H 1 R 1 ER 0 BB 10 K 1 HR

Daisuke:

7 IP 6 H 1 R 1 ER 1 BB 10 K 1 HR

Dumb ESPN factoids: Cueto was the first Red in the modern era to K 10 in his debut. He is the third pitcher ever to K 10 and allow 1 hit or less in his debut.

98 players have homered in their first major league at-bat, but i don't think too many of them were pitchers. one such was john 'the count' montefusco on sept. 3, 1974.

Haha the silent treatment.

wOwOwOwOw @ KKKKKKKKKKueto and DaisuKKKKKKKKKKe.

Max Scherzer (April 29, 2008) set a record for consecutive batters retired for a pitcher making an MLB debut in relief. Also has one brown eye and one blue eye.

wait...this WASN'T revived for jay bruce? dudes.

^^hint . . . hint

Jay Bruce (May 27, 2008) went 3-for-3 in his big league debut with a pair of walks, a stolen base and two RBIs.

Bruce became the first Reds player to have three hits in his debut since Willie Greene did it on Sept. 1, 1992, against Montreal.

I just hope that Jay Bruce has a better career than Willie Greene, who was hyped as "the Reds third baseman for the next twelve years" when he first came up. Former team mate and current Red broadcaster basically said Willie Green was a good fastball hitter that never figured out how to hit anything if the pitcher could change speeds.

Jason Heyward (April 5, 2010) went 2-for-5 in his major league debut with the Atalanta Braves, hitting a grand slam in his first major league at bat.

Heyward, age 20, is the third youngest to homer in his first at bat.

not a grand slam fwiw!

Felt like one.

you guys have seen this article about heyward i take it? it's verrrry rambling but there's some good stuff in there

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/04/12/100412fa_fact_mcgrath

"the G.S.S.S.T.D., or Great Stephen Strasburg Spring Training Début."

That's an entertaining article. I will look for Stephen Strasburg on the Gnats.

Ben McGrath has a good command of the baseball cliché. Are rookie fastballs ever anything but "explosive"?

JUSTIN HEYWARD!!!!!!1111!11!

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hahaha... sorrrrrry.

J.Heyward earns the golden sombrero tonight. Extra innings could give him a chance at 5...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cGo4P2iW4A

Shōta Imanaga (April 1, 2024)

~~6IP 2H 0R 0ER 9K 0BB~~

Shōta Imanaga became the first Cubs pitcher with at least six scoreless innings and nine strikeouts in an MLB debut since at least 1901. He is the second pitcher in MLB history (Pittsburgh’s Nick Kingham in 2018) with six scoreless frames, no walks and nine strikeouts in an MLB debut.

Shota Imanaga candidate for Cy Young Award and Rookie of the Year

If Imanaga keeps pitching like this, you could probably throw his name into MVP consideration as well. The Cubs are six games over .500 and 7-1 in Imanaga’s eight starts. Monday’s start was probably the worst Imanaga has looked this season. And he put up five shutout frames against a loaded Atlanta lineup while striking out eight batters and scattering seven hits (all singles) in a 2-0 loss at Truist Park.

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Imanaga’s brilliant start to his career (0.96 ERA) is the best the game has seen in nearly 60 years.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5491443/2024/05/14/shota-imanaga-cy-young-cubs-bullpen/

I love him. The movement on his stuff is beyond belief. We’ll see how the full season pans out but that contract looks like a steal rn.

"With a 1.08 ERA through seven starts of his MLB career, he joins rare Cubs air for starters who have thrown sub-1.15 ERAs through any seven-game stretch of their careers. Jake Arrieta (2015), Warren Hacker (1952) and Grover Alexander (1920) are the only three to eclipse that mark in that time frame in Cubs history."

Another update from your friendly neighborhood Cubbie Pravda:

Shota Imanaga has a 0.96 ERA through 8 starts and Javier Assad has a 1.49 ERA through 9 starts.

They can become the first pair of teammates to each have ERAs of 1.50 or lower through the first 9 starts of a season since Don Sutton & Claude Osteen did so for the Dodgers in 1972.

— nugget chef (@jayhaykid) May 16, 2024

today ^^^ 7IP, 4H, 1BB, 7K, 0 ER

The Philosopher throws another gem! Nice walk off by Bellinger.

Lol - I just posted in the regular season thread about Imanaga. Loving this start for him.