It just occurred to me the other day that major league pitchers are throwing some serious heat these days. They got guys approaching 106 MPH fast balls Aroldis Chapman. Every team these days has a closer that hits 100MPH's it seems like including the beard himself ole B. Wilson of the S.F. Gigantes. Seriously what's going on? I mean we all know about Roger Clemens being indicted by the Supreme Court and all the shenanigans he's pulled but i can't think of any others. it appears the steroid era is over at least for hitters that is. There are still guys that rake but I'm doubting anyone is going to sniff Barry Bonds record of 73 big flys in a season.
1990 and 91 saw the most most no hitters in a 2 year span with 14 (7 both years), but that's mainly due to lack of steroids being used in that era minus Bo Jackson, Rob Deere and Ron Gant who were obviously snorting lines of juice off each others biceps. Hitter's now have adapted to high velocity pitchers and are more skilled athletes so throwing a no no is no easy task. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that throwing a 100+MPH fastball is equally as impressive however. Have you ever been in a batting cage and faced 90MPH's? The ball gets on you in a ridiculous way. 90MPH's is bp in the bigs though unless you have Mariano movement and location but if you add 10 more muffs to that it's almost unhittable. Right? At least it's gotta be pretty damn hard. What are these guys doing today that they weren't doing 10,15,20 years ago? Nolan used to hit 100+ like it was his job but he was a freak. A hay bail chuckin, bronco bustin, rootin tootin freak of nature. Even Nolan's fastest recorded pitch was only 100.9 MPH's. look at this chart that is outdated now but breaks down the fastest recorded pitches through 2005.
I don't know what's going on here but Bud Selig may or may not need to shift his attention to the juice babies standing on the mound.
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1990 and 91 saw the most most no hitters in a 2 year span with 14 (7 both years), but that's mainly due to lack of steroids being used in that era minus Bo Jackson, Rob Deere and Ron Gant who were obviously snorting lines of juice off each others biceps. Hitter's now have adapted to high velocity pitchers and are more skilled athletes so throwing a no no is no easy task. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that throwing a 100+MPH fastball is equally as impressive however. Have you ever been in a batting cage and faced 90MPH's? The ball gets on you in a ridiculous way. 90MPH's is bp in the bigs though unless you have Mariano movement and location but if you add 10 more muffs to that it's almost unhittable. Right? At least it's gotta be pretty damn hard. What are these guys doing today that they weren't doing 10,15,20 years ago? Nolan used to hit 100+ like it was his job but he was a freak. A hay bail chuckin, bronco bustin, rootin tootin freak of nature. Even Nolan's fastest recorded pitch was only 100.9 MPH's. look at this chart that is outdated now but breaks down the fastest recorded pitches through 2005.
I don't know what's going on here but Bud Selig may or may not need to shift his attention to the juice babies standing on the mound.
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Andy Pettitte.
ReplyDeleteThat's 2 to the laundry list of hitters. Did he even break 95?
ReplyDeletenah. but that sort of goes against your theory that all pitchers who juice throw 100+.
ReplyDeletealso, you can add kenny powers to the list.
Yeah but he went from a high 80's guy to a mid 90's.
ReplyDeleteKenny Powers just blows heat on a beer diet.