re: A girl played D1 baseball for the first time ever

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There is exactly zero “elite”woman who can truly compete on a men’s team. They don’t exist

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Sure there is. If you take the best female college basketball player in the country. I'm sure she could make the team at a really bad D3 or NAIA team. She's not going to dominate or anything like that. But she could atleast get on the court and play.

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It's really the only sport that they make a different version for the women

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Technically it's not.

WVB net is shorter than MVB. Womens basketball play with a smaller lighter ball. Women's golf hit shorter distances. In track & field, women will throw a lighter shotput or discus.

Those are all still the same motions. Just with more physically appropriate apparatus for women. Softball is a completely different motion

It's pretty straight forward. Even massive softball catchers and speedy softball base runners aren't even on the level of high school baseball players.

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but a ton of MLB players throw 95+ mph fastballs now. The average fastball at the MLB level in 2022 was right at 94. Hell, every starting pitcher LSU has throws 95 or better, and a good number of the relief guys can. And that's just college baseball. So to say it's rare to face a major leaguer throwing 95 is just not accurate.

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I wasn't talking about MLB though. I was talking about D1 Baseball. And just because they can throw 95 doesn't mean they are throwing that as a starting pitcher. And the relievers aren't throwing a lot of strikes at that speed.
Those numbers make you a Friday night starter on a very good D1 team. I stand by rare.