During spring training in 2012, when Yoenis Cespedes had just arrived in the United States from Cuba and was still getting to know his teammates on the Oakland Athletics, he started doing a trick they had never seen: He would throw the ball underhand with stunning velocity, movement and accuracy. Like a softball player.
In the following years, Cespedes began throwing underhand more and more, and it became a habit during games. Watch during a lazy moment of a Mets game: Cespedes might catch a ball on the warning track and flick it underhand back to the infield about 200 feet away, hitting the shortstop in the chest.