re: How long is Paul Skenes arm going to hold up?

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pitch speeds were tracked much differently back then, though. Ryan def threw as hard as Skenes. Ryan was also kind of a unicorn

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This is true. Today’s velocity is measured soon after the ball is released where prior to the 2000s, velocity was measured before home plate. Check out the documentary “Fastball”. It does a good job of breaking it down. Nolan Ryan would have been around 105 - 107 when he was throwing his hardest in the mid to late 1970s.