I think the pichers mounds are closer this year

And Judge is still owning cats

Nolan Ryan threw 109 at age 39

Don’t tell the old heads here that

Is this supposed to be a joke?

Wake up ppl

The ball is thrown as hard as it's thrown, irrespective of the distance. V(max) doesn't change.

Any reduction in velocity due to friction/drag would be negligible at those distances.

Reducing the distance between the plate and the mound wouldn't increase the velocity of the thrown object. It would simply be subject to less cumulative drag.

You are an idiot. The measurement is taken out of the hand so the distance does not matter. Your LLWS example doesn't even make sense. The LLWS is still throwing 70, the calculation you are talking about is measuring the equivalent timing the batter has to react.

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So why do they show the equvilent speed at the llws? Your little math doesn't add up! So your saying a picher throwing a ball at 100 mph from 60 ft away will still only be 100 mph when thrown from 30 feet away, lol! I may be kind of stupid but even im not that dumb!

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It's the equivalent of a XXXmph fastball in terms of reaction time.

Time of flight is a function of velocity and distance. Reducing distance reduces ToF, but doesn't change velocity (unless distance was increased to the point drag became a factor by slowing the object down; not slowing an object down =/= speeding an object up).

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I may be kind of stupid but even im not that dumb!

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I realize you're probably trolling, but if not, yeah...you are that dumb.

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Serious question. Is TJ linked to throwing fastballs hard? I thought the physical issues with that manifested with back/shoulder issues, and TJ was from breaking stuff that put too much strain on elbows.

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The quest to increase spin rate on breaking balls plays a large role in the uptick in TJ surgeries, but "throwing as hard as you can" isn't helping either.

Strain on the arm is strain on the arm. "Jaxxon's first TJ surgery" is a real thing.

Same as with football and basketball - the players today are bigger, faster, stronger, more fit, better trained and for the most part, better players.

Today's players have gotten too good for the parameters of the games that they play. For football and basketball, you could enlarge the field for football and do the same for basketball, while raising the goal.

I don't know how you do something like this for baseball. I guess you could enlarge the field, but, then you'd just have more In-The-Park Home Runs. You can't push the pitcher's mound back or lower it because then the Hitters would have too much of an advantage.

It's quite an interesting puzzle IMHO.