Pitchers Have a Speed Limit

[kalinecountry]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/s...injury-shows-pitchers-have-a-speed-limit.html
Pitchers Have a Speed Limit.
from the newyorktimes

 

[Mitchrapp]

So Chapman is on the list a lot. 105.1 MPH is the fastest recorded ever. Against the Padres, in which 7 of his pitched that game are part of the fastest ever...? I'm betting whatever machine they used was busted. 105.1 my ass..

 

[Thumb]

My opinion is every persons body is different. I won't be surprised to see some freak in the near future hit 110mph.

Sports history is full of unbreakable feats being broken time and time again.

 

[kalinecountry]

Athletes get stronger, bigger, faster, it won't surprise me either to see higher than 105 and up to the 110.

What I would like to see is a uniform and regulated machine that is already registered/calibrated and can't be changed to run hotter or cold/slower and installed in every park. Get true and honest readings with every pitch.

 

[Thumb]

I would too. The problem is the radar gun is not an official tool of MLB, it's a propaganda tool, and because of that teams with a good number of flamethrower pitchers will always set the gun hot, it promotes hype.

These days 97 has become bland, but make that 97 into a 99 or 100 and suddenly people start to "oooh" and "ahh". Forget the fact that even kids at AA can hit 100 mph fastballs if they guess they're coming.