1.  Left-handed he is.

2. He appears to have returned from two-plus years of injury rehab as exactly the same pitcher, in terms of peripherals, he was before he got hurt -- which isn't really too bad.

3. The Z-crew knows him from his Brewer heyday.

4. One of his baseball-reference.com comps is John Halama.

5. His b-ref comps include BOTH Dave Mlicki and Bob Milacki -- what are the odds of that?

6. Yet another comp is Al Nipper, who was the No. 4 starter behind Roger Clemens, Oil Can Boyd and Bruce Hurst back when I was a RedSox fan.  Oil Can was great fun.  Al Nipper I remember vaguely, but I do recall him being better on average than Calvin Schiraldi.

7. More seriously, Capuano appears to be a better strikeout pitcher than Halama, Nipper or the usual #4 types ever were (7.4 career K/9), and his last full healthy season (2006) his walk rate dipped and he put up a pretty tidy 113 ERA+. 

8. He went to Duke but apparently did not overlap with Quinton McCracken or Christian Laettner.

So there.