re: Are radar guns hot?

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Everyone is throwing harder these days. Idk if it’s mechanics or what, but it’s real.

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This, pitchers across the board are throwing harder than they were a decade or two ago.

Kids are starting younger and younger and advances in technology have helped them increase velo more and more.

Getting a kid throwing mid-high 90s in high school to college was a complete pipe dream in the past typically, now it's becoming more common. USed to get guys low-mid 90s to college and hope to increase velo over time there.

Now we have freshmen coming into college hitting triple digits or very near it their freshman year, it's pretty insane.

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I've heard that they are picking the ball up right out of the pitcher's hands these days, where as the old school guns didn't. That's what I've heard anyway.

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I’m more interested in the speed of the pitch as it crosses the plate. Big numbers are cool but batters hit the ball when it crosses the plate. Not when it’s at the mound. Speed at the plate is more meaningful than speed at the mound. It’s a split second difference but it’s dumb to use the speed from the mound and not the speed from the potential point of contact with the bat.

Back in the day they used to radar pitches closer to the plate. In the 2010’s they radar pitches 50 feet from the plate. Now they radar them the moment it leaves the pitchers hand.

Technology and the ability to capture pitch speeds further away from the plate has caused the rise in the speeds.

Players in general are also throwing harder.

I agree it seems to be a combination of both the athletes and the gun.

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Should I keep going or is that enough?

Botched that one, didn’t I

I saw that bullshite pitching ninja. Just wants to deny bull shite and he NEVER met Ryan or saw the size of his legs. Velocity is the lower half and in Fastball they analyzed the biomechanics.
All he does it says “the machine isn’t accurate”. It can’t possible be and I don’t give 2 shits about how big “Chapmans arms were”. IT DOESNT MATTER. How much power they are in the lower half to generates the drive.

Nolan threw 235 pitches in a game and pitched 9 innings four days later. fricking ask these pussies to do that today. THERE ARE NONE THAT COUKD REMOTELY COME CLOSE.


I can tell you that JV didn’t come close to Ryan. Verlander was popping 100. frick man Ryan threw 98 on his last freaking pitch at 46 years old AFTER 27 years freaking pitching in the Majors.
How stupid are some of y’all?

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How much power they are in the lower half to generates the drive.

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The legs are stabilizers, and while they correlate to velocity, they are just that; stabilizers

A lot has changed in the study of pitching mechanics, Sonny boy. The front leg is actually more important to velocity than the back leg drive that you are trying to push. But hey who actually cares about the science of it

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I've heard that they are picking the ball up right out of the pitcher's hands these days, where as the old school guns didn't. That's what I've heard anyway.

Not exactly sure when that transition took place.

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This is exactly what has happened. It’s slowly moved closer and closer to the pitcher to where now it is right out of the pitcher’s hands. A lot of it has to do with technology. Original radar detectors couldn’t pick up the speed until almost the plate.

The thing isn’t that players throw harder. There have always been fireballers. The thing now is the abundance of them and the control they throw with that power.