I hope he has control of that missile.
The catcher’s hand is on fire.
Lot of >100 mph pitchers.
Probably many more in the past, but technology to measure wasn’t precise.
Also a likely reason hitters swing for the fences. They have to commit very quickly, with no time to adjust..
List from this year:
Well the Jays are heading for the golf course or whatever their off season fancy is now so this pitch was an omen for them. Thanksgiving today up here in the great white north. I’m thankful for many things. Blessings to all.
Well, for a fastball it had some nice movement.
I haven't watched much more than an inning here and there of late season baseball but I know radar guns credited NY Yankee Cole in several of his last regular season games with 100 mph pitches and NY Met DeGrom was clocked at 100 in the playoffs.
I think we might be in the baseball era of radar guns on steroids.
The game has changed so much over the years. There have been a few “hard” throwers but most of them had to learn how to pitch rather than just throw when they reached higher level ball. So speed isn’t everything. Movement, control, and variety of pitches works just as well.
One pitcher I remember, who still is coaching, became the 13th pitcher in MLB history to reach 3,000 strikeouts, and the 9th pitcher in MLB history with 300 career wins (355) and 3,000 strikeouts; he is still the only pitcher in MLB history with 300 wins, 3,000 strikeouts and less than 1,000 walks. He won four ERA titles (in 1993–1995 and 1998), and led the NL in shutouts five times. And he holds the record for most seasons finishing in the top 10 in the league in wins. Early in his career he was as high as 93 mph but during most of his career he never threw over 86. Gregg Maddux. Drive for show, but putt for the dough example. So speed isn’t everything. Neither is the home run as Maddux made many of them look like fools.
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That’s a fine throw.
Give ‘em the high cheese
Nolan threw harder.
I don’t follow pro sports anymore but had to have a peek at this.
Holymoly, that was seriously rapid !!
Now THAT’s a fastball...
I got kicked out of over-55 slow pitch softball for delivering pitches like that.
In the early 1980s, I watched Nolan Ryan pitch at the Astrodome in Houston. He was hitting 101mph that night. Joe Niekro with the knuckle ball was also on that team. Great view from the skybox over 3rd base. It was like him winding up then POW the ball was in the catchers glove.
Ryan was probably at his peak then. Fast ball high 90s and bumped at bit higher on some pitches, curve ball in mid-90s and change up in the low 90s. Curve ball was the strike out pitch.
Impressive movement.
And to think Nolan Ryan threw 104 every day.
Steve Dalkowski, who never made the majors, may have been the fastest ever. He pitched in the Orioles system in the early 60’s. Supposedly an attempt was made to use the primitive radar available at the time to measure his velocity - he tried for 45 minutes to get one close enough to the target that the radar could measure it. Finally got one close enough and it measured something like 97 - at the same distance where the catcher’s mitt would be, which means it was well over 100 at release which is how Statcast measures it. Those who saw him pitch estimated he probably hit 110 at his fastest.
Guy once pitched a complete game in which he struck out 21 hitters and walked 24. Just a bit wild. Ted Williams, possessor of the best hitting eye ever, refused to hit against him in a spring training game near the end of his career - said he couldn’t see the ball.
He never pitched in the majors due to wildness and personal issues.