With the old radar guns the top guys would hit 98 usually. With the new guns those readings are now being shown as 103 and that’s honestly complete bullshite.

Anyone claiming for instance Jordan Hicks throws harder than say Rob Dibble did in the 1990s is an idiot.

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Posted by ProjectP2294

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Member since May 2007

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Posted on 1/9/26 at 3:44 pm to ShaneTheLegLechler

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It’s a truly incredible take but surprising how many people parrot it

I'm always amazed when anyone agrees with anything Jeff Frye says. And there a multiple people in this thread doing just that.

Average fastball velocity in the majors has gone up like 2 mph in something like the last 10 years. There is no tech change that impacted the way things were measured in that timeframe. There are some absolute tards in this thread.

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Posted by Lester Earl

3rd Ward

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Posted on 1/10/26 at 10:27 am to JoeyP239

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Anyone claiming for instance Jordan Hicks throws harder than say Rob Dibble did in the 1990s is an idiot.

Joey, you realize the guns have been calibrated the same way for almost 20yrs now, and the average fastball has increased by almost 3mph?

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Posted by BatonrougeCajun

Somewhere in Texas

Member since Feb 2008

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Posted on 1/10/26 at 11:32 am to tiggerthetooth

Frye is a clown who does nothing but bash the game, offers no ways to improve it and yearns for the old days. He’s an engagement farming troll, F that guy

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Posted by BoardReader

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Member since Dec 2007

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Posted on 1/10/26 at 11:50 am to BatonrougeCajun

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offers no ways to improve it

Like almost anything in life, improvement is incremental, inconsistent, and extremely unlikely to rapidly occur in any long practiced human endeavors, barring the change of a boundary/rule/parameter.

The best things that can be done for baseball are *around* the game now. Things that have end changes to the fan experience, not the game itself- idiotic things like blackout policies that harm the development of local and regional fan bases by making it *harder* to follow teams, even if you live in their shadow, if you don't have a subscription service.

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