The speed doesn't matter as much, hitters can hit 105mph pitches into the second deck easy...its that movement he had on those pitches that puts him in a league of his own. Nobody is making contact on a 100mph splitter. That pitch was just nasty.
@@GSP-76 I’m not saying they can’t hit it cause it’s 105, I’m saying they’ve been playing for two hours, in the heat, and they are tired and reaction times are slower. When you have to decide if you’re gonna swing or not in .1 seconds every .01 seconds matter more. So later in the game to have to try and hit 105, PLUS it moves? Yea it’s a wild closer
well there is a thing called contact hitting that gets kinda lost in this day and age of power hitting craze. Not saying its easy but certainly pros should be able to take better hacks on it by shortening up and not swinging out their asses....could be just me tho
That would some exciting shit to witness. Whatever team he’d be on, their ratings would be record breaking. I know I’d be tuning in. As a Mets fan even if he were in Oakland or some shit. That’d be awesome.
As a twins fan, I am so excited about our future. We got some great young players but Duran and Lewis will be HOF beasts. Also the 105 mph pitch almost looked effortless compared to how some guys wind up
HOF beasts??? 😂😂😂 Love the young guys but you gotta know what that means. Nolan Ryan is a HOF beast. A former top prospect that hasn't proven anything yet isn't.
I think it's gonna be between him and Jordan Hicks(closer for the cardinals). Hicks has hit 106. It drives me nuts though cause they still have the fastest pitch ever at 105.8 from Chapman and that cant be right because Nolan Ryan threw 108.
@keithdefreitas3399 it's honestly a big rabbit hole if you start looking into it lol. The year was 1974 though. Whether it's true or not has been a huge debate for quite a while. Mainly because calculating ball speed back then probably wasn't 100% accurate.
@@HiThereFaceHere lol that’s why I asked. The technology back then wasn’t no where near as sophisticated as it is now. And a lot of these pitchers these days are frickin huge even position players are huge. They keep getting bigger and bigger. These days 6’2’ for a pitcher is short. These are sone biggggg boys these days. If Nolan pitched 108mph 50 years ago then these guys today should be pitching 120mph which is not humanly possible. I think. Lol these rookie pitchers are like 6’6’ 240-250. I mean Nolan is still the goat but how fast you throw the ball doesn’t make you the best.
@@keithdefreitas3399 oh absolutely. I agree entirely. I do remember 2 years ago Jordan Hicks hitting 106. The announcers said it too but they said it like it was just a normal ol pitch. My brother was watching it with me and we both looked at each other in complete disbelief and then never heard another thing about it. Like it wasn't recorded or something idk. I've always wondered what happened with that though. Like if the radar for TV was off a little bit or what happened. I know somebody else out there had to have seen it too. It's ate at me ever since.
It's not about velo, it's about mechanics, momentum, and strength. His delivery takes about as much effort as most guys out there, and his splitter (the pitch that usually gets guys in arm trouble) is actually a splinker, which is thrown with the arm action of his fastball. He was healthy last year and there should not be any issues.
@@Mutorcsym1391 Just because he throws hard doesn't mean that he is messing up his arm. if his mechanics are good, he wont get hurt. And his mechanics have to be be pretty freaking good to throw 105.
@oFiery I will remember you as well. Percentages son, anyone can make a mistake, at 105 miles per hour, good luck. Like I previously stated, I wish him well and longevity.
@@Triple7-300You can have the best mechanics, part of pitching is snapping your elbow forward with great force. That’s what leads to Tommy John surgery. It’s really impressive, don’t get me wrong, but that shit will fuck up your arm/elbow
@@zachjungels6219Brady arm wasn’t the strongest though I would say a relax thrower with heat would be Jeff George or Mike Vick they would just flick the ball and it would fly
@@Nazim909 Brady through the fasted ball two years ago at 62 at 44 but he also had the best mechanics of anyone, maybe joe burrow is there too. Not the strongest arms by far but they set their feet and gain a lot of torque from utilizing all that energy from setting their feet and legs to their throwing motion. Other guys like Allen or mahomes could definitely throw faster but they throw off platform and can get away with mechanics being terrible bc they’re so damn talented
I used to play up to high school and delt with some pretty fast pitchers. I don't know about other batters but at high speeds I had to mentally go in swinging at every pitch. It was only a split second after I had to back off on outside pitches. That was the only way I could hit fast pitches.
@@BloodySoup74 I mean in the early 70s when he was in his late 20s. Just watch his no hit bid in from August 7th, 1974 on here. Some of the fastest stuff I've ever seen
You and I both, I only touched 94 once in my life and, and seeing this makes me feel like a loser🤣. But no hate. I’m 5’10 and he’s most definitely over 6feet tall. So you have to give it to him, dude is a stud 💪🏾
I used to throw low 70s fastball, and as a 3rd baseman in the fields, I took a couple of liners to the ankle. It hurt but I scooped the ball and then turned to 1st, gunned the ball super laughable, fell down as my shoulder hurt super bad, and rolled around.
@@turnkeydirect 😂😂I was sitting 90-93 and couldn’t touch 95 was my point. And yes I definitely believe you can hit a home run off of me… just baffles me that a dude can even touch triple digits consistently
So when these pitchers throw, are they completely relaxing their pectoral end z& shoulder, then rotating their arm with the shoulder or are they tightening the shoulder and using pec and scapular muscles to achieve the speed? I know pitchers have different styles but sm pretty sure it’s not just throwing in normal style as hard as you can
The speed is generated from the ground up, and downforce is transferred to the large rotational force via the muscle hip/shoulder axis applied to the small muscle internal rotation of the elbow joint. So you get a large force applied to small fast movements. Similar to a golf swing, except the arm is the golf club.
@@duckswearinggloves305 Jesus. Yk, I wrote a paper about throwing 100 mph and how great of a feat it is. Then I wrote a paper about hitting a 100 mph pitch, and every researcher I found for said the same thing. “It should be impossible for humans to hit a pitch traveling at 90 mph. Much less 100+.” Baseball is the miracle game
@@trentbateman exactly, but even with that guess work, the decision to swing and where, in relative time scales, takes incredibly long. Plus the fact that our brain is even able to make those ‘calculations’ where the ball will be is astounding. The evolution of humans being able to throw things accurately for hunting purposes was revolutionary, but now we’ve taken a step further and said “what if we were the prey?”
@@timboslice8559 I know. I wasn't serious when I said that. Was just saying how crazy velocity has been going up these days. Control should be worried about more than Velocity imo. Throwing hard just destroys arms.
I caught a bullpen for a guy who threw mid 90s. You could hear the sizzle of the ball coming in and it felt like catching a cannonball. I can’t even imagine what catching 105 is like.
Doubtful, while sure there are more 100mph pitchers now than in the past. Part of it is due to how they used to measure pitch speed. For example back when Nolan Ryan was throwing 100. They were measuring pitch speed 10ft from home plate. Then it moved to halfway from home to the mound, then it moved to 10ft from the mound, now it’s from the release. Pitches aren’t necessarily faster than they used to be. They are just being measured at the point their velocity would be the highest now, at the pitchers release. This 105 would be measured about 97-98 in the late 70s. Probably 102-103 in the early 2000s. 104 in the early 2010s and 105 now.
@@MeesterCHRlS you really think it would be that drastic of a difference? I mean those pitches he was throwing straight up LOOK like they’re 105 all the way to the glove. Not saying they are but dropping 8 mph after 10 feet sounds like it wouldn’t be that accurate.
@@ericwisniewski2636 It's not what I think, it's what the MLB and science/researchers have said. It's not 8mph after 10ft, its 8mph 10ft from the plate. meaning traveling 50+ feet.
@@MeesterCHRlS 💯 I’ve put a couple Nolan Ryan comments on here myself. The experts agree they the undisputed strikeout king’s fastball would have measured 108mph using today’s technology.
I remember growing up, the 99 mile per hour fastball was considered the hardest anyone could ever possibly throw. Then Aroldis Chapman showed up and changed that.
Go to some batting cages and have them throw 80 mph at you and then just imagine a 100 + mph pitch and the fact that it was even made contact with is something otherworldly.
