The Fastest Pitch Ever Recorded in the MLB 

Kansas City bullpen actuly

@@Crummy10you know he was traded to the Texas Rangers right?

He's a closer

@@EyeOfThePhi thats still a relief pitcher

@@Crummy10where you been

40's speak

But who’s on first?

@@warlordofbritannia Yes

One of our greatest players of all time

​@@warlordofbritanniaWho

And punching Robin Veturna out on the mound. 😅😅

. . . and could buck hay while repairing your foundation.

YEAH BUT NOLAN WAS ACTUALLY A FLAMETHROWER ! SAW HIM PITCH 4 TIMES & HE COULD BE DOWNRIGHT SPOOKY WITH THAT RISING FASTBALL

@@jimnagel5611 also seven no hitters

YEP AND HALF A MILLION STRIKEOUTS@@wesleypepple7525

that was priceless...i was readind this and i said no way in hell, until i saw kilo per hour...thats great..

not much of a changeup

@@johnrogers9942 He didn't even say "per hour" Maybe it was 100 km per day, or even per month like the silver sneaker walkers.

ngl, you had me in the first half

You're the man 😂

he said former reliever because now he is a closing pitcher.

​@@emme7346i mean maybe but no one says that

@@emme7346but isn’t will smith the closer or am I going crazy?

​​@@emme7346a closer is still a relief pitcher. However, he is a former *Reds* relief pitcher.

@@emme7346Leclerc is the closer

Yep, the MLB doesn't allow that anymore. If a pitcher is feeling it, let him keep going!

@@gregorysanders6848I agree. But I don't think we'll see that again very often unless someone has a no-no going. :/

Robin Ventura can attest to the speed of Ryan's arm

@@gregorysanders6848they do allow it

@@Daniel-qx6bg Respect for that mention...

Koufax is another person that comes to mind when you're talking about heat.

In the early part of his career he threw every Pitch as hard as he could, but it took the Catcher, Roseboro to talk to him to tell him To stop trying to throwing so hard and start Throwing with finesse. And with that he became one of the all time greats. And when he was forced to retire early, bc of elbow issues, he even acknowledged that if he hadn't been trying to throw as hard as he Possibly could early on in his career, his career Probably would have lasted for several years Longer then it did. After he followed the Advice, that was given him, he became almost unhittable. And over a period if five Seasons he led the majors in strike outs, and Shutouts

No, because it’s an estimate. Mathematically derived so it’s not official and there’s probably some standard error in the calculation. The officially MEASURED fastest pitch was by Chapman.

@@davsaltegoit’s physics so they can get right to that number with a high degree of certainty. Guy threw 98 at 46 years old so given how much pitchers velocity tails off at the end of their careers no doubt he would’ve been close to 108.

And that was a strike if I remember correctly

Funny they choose to confirm what they confirm...they claim to know with precision the speed of so many events and yet don't honor Ryans actuals...MLB isnt what they used to be or should be. Chapman was fast but even he knows

probably not as accurate of a measurement

And Nolan Ryan was throwing 100-plus well into his forties

And it’s sad he never got a cy young award. He was totally robbed!

No doubt the best to ever do it. He also got 6 hits in a game...when he hit Robin Ventura in the head with his fist.

He barely won more games than he lost.

@@facetofloor and 5700 strikeouts almost 900 more than randy Johnson,what's your point

*Wow!!! Your lucky; respect!*

Great memory to have, not everyone has one like that.

That's some gamesmanship there

As soon as the ball is released it is traveling as fast as it ever will. The ball will never accelerate in the air. It's physics.

​@@deepspireisnt that what he just said? 10' from the plate vs 10' from the mound...

​@@deepspireThat's the point. Try keeping up.

no, they currently measure as soon as it leaves the pitcher's hand, and they used to measure it somewhere between 10 fett from the olate to at the plate, it wasnt consistent. Either way, it's at keast a 45-50ft difference with the ball slowing ~8%. So Ryan's 100.9 near the plate would havr been measure at about 108moh out of his hand. Moreover, they measure very few pitches when he was in his 20s and 30sc so the 100.9 thay cloeckes at the olate was almost certainly not the fastest he ever threw, it's damn near statistically impossible. It's very likey he threw 102 or better at the plate on occasion, which would translate to 110mph out of his hand.

108 is impossible. Since MPH has been collected Chapman has consistently been the fastest with 102-105mph. Everything before is legend.

@StuMarston I'll take your word on the RYAN EXPRESS not pitching at EXHIBITION STADIUM. I do 1 game that DID! take place in 1977. The White Sox playing the Jays in their MLB debut & it SNOWED! in Toronto. I was watching the gm. on WSNS CH. 44 CHICAGO & Harry Carey was going NUTS! 🥜 on the broadcast.

Nah, Steve Nebraska hit 109 MPH when he struck out Ozzie Smith to complete his 81-pitch PERFECT game in the World Series.

Vaughn's arm went rather quickly, but he still had enough to strike out a former teammate in the fictional 1994 ALCS. (The OTL '94 post-season was cancelled thanks to the players' strike).

"We better teach this kid some control before he kills somebody" - The legendary Lou Brown

Mid 90’s according to estimates

Yeah that's what I've seen, too.

​@@TheRoadLessChosenDean was the faster of the two.

You're probably right but with tech advancing everyday you never know, might be able to figure it out one day.

Satchell Paige?

Rivera threw harder then gissage

At the time I remember that it was reckoned he threw at 99 mph. I remember him throwing George Brett one of those fastballs in the playoffs and George hit it into the upper deck in right field in Yankee stadium.

Exactly

He does 108

@@m42037 did you watch fastball

The head

At 106 your dying

As if there is a big practical difference to your body, between a 97-mph ball, and a 103-mph ball...🙄🙄🙄🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

I was there too. Unreal. Go Reds.

C’mon man… he said, “Don’t fact check me”. 😄

You realize that the hypotenuse of a right triangle is farther than it’s base? So there’s no way he only threw that ball 45 feet. Also, the baseball slows down about 8 miles an hour on its course to the plate on average. That would put the pitch at at least 106, and I think it’s likely he threw 108 given a slight inaccuracy in the radar or at least at some other point in his career

@gradyjones7017 okay Pythagoras, he release the ball about 5 feet off the ground and it crosses about 4 feet of the ground so 1 squared + 45 squared equals the "hypotenuse" of you imagined right triangle, it turns out that it's basically still 45 ft. Also the declaration is based on many factors and they weren't all at their worst. Hate when people think they know something because they misunderstood science.

@gradyjones7017 and to your "no way it only traveled 45 feet" your correct but still wrong. The ball was measured ahead of the plate by 10 feet and think pitching mechanics. Nolan would drive down the front slope and extend his arm out as he released. Nolan is 6 feet tall so its not unreasonable that he extended 5 feet.

@@jamesgaston2745 yeah that’s on me, I forgot about his extension. I will say though that he released the ball more like 7 feet off the ground though instead of 5, but other than that you were right

Ryan's not standing straight up with his arm extended over his head at the release point, so it definitely wouldn't be 7 feet.​@@gradyjones7017

I was wondering who was gonna say it, though also looking forward to seeing what Paul skenes will do in the future

Sure, ignore da facts. Feller and ryan could not b confirmed. Chapman was. Although Chapman underachieved in my opinion.

​​@@franciscodiaz3892Here's a fact: 5,714. Here's another: Last pitch ever thrown was 98 MPH (46 YRS OLD) What do you think the Express was throwing at Chapman's age? Ay amigo. Usted nunca escuchó el sonido de Catcher's mitt cuando lanzó The Express.

@Rivethead242 I'm not questioning those facts. And I don't doubt Ryan threw that hard. And I watched him live, so yes, I have heard a ball pop. All I said is that it wasn't unquestionably proven.

@@franciscodiaz3892 OK. Fair enough. My apologies if I didn't read into your post more carefully.

@Rivethead242 No prob. It happens. Ultimately, Chapman not even on their level 2 b real honest.

And wild as hell still like usual

He probably won’t. He might not play a lot because he gets injured a lot. His fastest was 105.5 though

​​@@JackDrewStudiosjust .2 short to aroldis fastest

He pitched for the Angels this year and definitely threw 105 in a game in less than 20 games off injury

Almost got smoked

what. he litterally stated in the video that it was actaully 100.9

@@koolkatzjoey1717 that’s an old speed reading they don’t measure speed the same way they use to.

@@David_VZ77 no, the 108 was the one they dont do anymore

Who cares where the velocity is measured (ie 10 ft before or at the plate…ever seen a baseball’s velocity change much during its trip from hand to catchers glove?) of course not.

​@@RozarSmaccoYou need to think about that. If you don't realize that a thrown ball slows down whilst traveling to it's target you really need to go back to school.

I went to Junior High and played Little League with "Cory" Snyder who made it to the majors for Cleveland, in the late 80s.

@ernienegrete5702 his name sounded familiar so I looked him up and all the teams he was on. The two pitchers that I knew that made it to the big league pitched for 7 different teams, but per Wikipedia, Cory never played with any of those teams. But yeah we both played with some great players who got to live the dream. I played in college and waa scouted just a little but no offers. I was a pitcher and 1st base. I was actually better at first base than pitching. My curve broke more than any coach of mine ever has seen. I'd throw straight at a right-handed batters head and even when they knew it was coming they'd drop. The ball ended low and away. The problem was I gripped and threw it with incredible wrist movement. It would have soon destroyed my wrist. If I threw it the correct, no kidding, I was less accurate and it of course didn't break as much. But yeah first practice in high-school I made varsity as a freshman and the first pitch I threw everyone was, kid you not, speechless like they were questioning if that actually happened...great memories, huh?

Research dalllkowski. You are right he is fastest ever 5'10" 155 lbs.

"Make him back off the plate a bit"

They clocked Ryan’s pitch at 100.9 mph 10 feet early and I guess using math they believe the pitch would’ve been 108 by the time it reached the plate. Doesn’t make much sense to me since you’d assume it slows down over those 10 feet but it definitely looked fast in the video

@@CooperJ56 Ooooh, gotcha! I thought the video was saying it was clocked at 108, but after some math, it hit 109, not 100.9. But saying it was 100.9, not 109, makes sense.

​@@CooperJ56the discrepancy is because they USED to measure pitches 10ft before it reached home. Today it's measured as soon as it leaves the pitcher's hand, which reads a faster speed being that the ball slows as soon as it's thrown. Ryan's 100.9mph pitch in the mid-1970s would've read 105-106 with today's radar guns.

Was Ryan’s middle name Salter?