Tigers had position players pitch before when the game was a blowout. Andrew Romine, Danny Worth, and Don Kelly did it. Danny Worth actually wasn’t that bad and can throw a knuckleball.
I forgot to mention that all of them are better than Joe Nathan during his stint with the Tigers, and are sometimes better than others in the bullpen depending on if it’s a good or bad day.
A lot of times a position player will have the best knuckleball on the team and will get put in when blowouts or extended extra innings happen. It’s actually not terrible if they are on with it, usually they can go multiple innings if they have to and the different look gets weak contact. Sometimes just seeing a pitch that’s below ‘hitting speed’ messes up timing.
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