Given that he is a converted infielder, shouldn't it help that he has less mileage on his arm? Depends on how you look at it. Some players are able to convert into becoming a pitcher and some end of blowing out their arms trying to. Im not going to go into the mechanical side of it because the majority of the people would not understand it. so you're saying that some pitchers blow out their arms and some don't? fantastic analysis. and if by "not understand it" you mean mock you relentlessly, then, yeah, we wouldn't understand.