Why Can't Baseball Players Pitch at 120 mph? ⚾  

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Eventually someone will beat Bolt's record. There are enough ways to improve sprinting. But there is a limit to optimizing pitch mechanics, with one problem being the body/elbow's limit.

@@MissKorea-oy9ip It really just sounds like you have no idea what you’re talking about🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️ You claim sprinting doesn’t have a physical limitation on the body like there is with pitching but that’s simply not the truth. In fact, Sprinters experience a higher rate of injury than pitchers. Although it is increasingly more common for pitchers to get hurt from pitching, it is in fact even MORE common for sprinters to get injured statistically speaking. I don’t know why you think generating an immense otherworldly amount of explosiveness in the fibers of your legs is somehow easy to do but it’s really not. The plateau of sprint speeds will reach a similar standstill than those of pitching speeds unlike what you may believe. Sure, someone is going to eventually beat Usain Bolt. But guess what, someone will eventually throw 106 mph. The truth is that the improvement will converge so marginally that it’ll eventually become a battle of minutiae.

@@MissKorea-oy9ipyea not by 5 seconds tho. I’m sure the throwing record will be beaten too but a mph or something

@@orenge_lui5880😐

Yes

Those were average speeds for pitchers at the time

@@man-fx5txthe average speed was like 92

This is a huge baseball misconception lol he did throw around 92 but that was average speed for his era. Still a pitcher throwing average speed and being one of the greatest ever is commendable. He did not throw slow however.

@@Cooper.daddy3 no it was 88-90

Greg* Maddux*

It was 110

My father favorite pitcher

That\s because it wasn't 108 lmao

Unofficial record is 122 set by my buddy Dave down the street

That’s all just hearsay. Yes he threw hard but I don’t believe he threw 108.

Caught me off guard 😂

How you could literally see him starting to throw it and how is that funny

That’s unofficial

It was 107

@zayn4352 108.1 actually

Facts

Buddy, i know you know that is BULL SHIT

Thank you

@@ertr97 search up Nolan Ryan’s fastest pitch

@@ertr97it is bullshit when you look it up it says Thus, tales of Nolan Ryan's 108.1 mph fastball in 1974. Not that he actually threw it that fast

118? I'm not tryna be that guy but that's kinda impossible

@@billsfanW my bad. I meant 74

@@ryanedwards4512 I mean that's fine I just dunno how you typo 118 for 74 but wtv 🤷🏻

@@billsfanW hmmmm

Who???

I threw a 500 mph. It was on camera but too fast to capture it 😎

Yaaaa I had to laugh at that too

It was actually 108

Uhh no? You can turn your head and their not stepping towards any base it’s all perfectly legal

No they a tapping there glove before they pitch boredsred