Following up on Zorilla's comment in this thread, I took a quick scan of basestealers against for each of the starting pitchers. The data is from Baseball-Reference and here are the results (Note: SB2 means how many steals were of second):
| Pitcher | SB | CS | SB% | SB2 | SB3 |
| Niemann | 17 | 4 | 81 | 11 | 6 |
| Shields | 2 | 2 | 50 | 1 | 0 |
| Kazmir | 3 | 1 | 75 | 2 | 1 |
| Garza | 1 | 2 | 33 | 1 | 0 |
| Price | 5 | 4 | 56 | 5 | 0 |
| Sonny | 1 | 2 | 33 | 1 | 0 |
Jeff Niemann almost has more steals against him than the rest of the rotation has attempts. He's no Chris Young, but when a moderately quick runner reaches, there's little deliberation needed whether or not to send him. The players who have successfully swiped a bag off Niemann this year:
Scott Hairston
Orlando Cabrera (twice)
Alexi Casilla
Michael Cuddyer
Denard Span (twice)
Hanley Ramirez
Emilio Bonifacio
Brian Roberts (twice)
Cesar Izturis
Jason Bay
Jacoby Ellsbury (thrice)
Scott Rolen
Troy Tulowitzki
Miguel Cabrera
The hall of shame, otherwise known as the caught stealing crowd:
Aubrey Huff
Nick Green
Ichiro Suzuki
Alex Cora
Maybe Niemann is simply a prankster. Nobody can catch Ichiro then proceed to let Bay and Cabrera steal on them, right? Right?