[ARCHIVED THREAD] - 96 MPH Fastball! pWNed! (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 8/26/2006 1:29:06 AM EDT
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Poor kid... www.nothingtoxic.com/media/1156465884/Foolish_Kid_Claims_He_Can_Throw_96MPH 
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 Poor bastard. Terrible form, by the way. If he really is a pitcher, and he keeps throwing like that, he can expect elbow surgery by the age of 20. His shoulder will be a wreck, too. And what's with the running and gunning on the first throw? This ain't cricket, Southie! |
Very true, one of the detroit tigers best pitchers is a slow throwing lefty who usally tops out around 87-88. Of course they have this guy also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Zumaya |
| At a party once a Ball State University after several beers I asked one of the Schools Baseball players to pitch me a couple to see if I could make contact. Out of the three pitches he threw I only saw one of them and there was no way I even came close to contact. I then asked him just how hard he could throw and he said around 95mph. I then found out he missed my head by about 6 inches with one of the pitches I didn't see. |
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typical teenager... he'll grow out of it. Remember as a teenager we used to be able to conquer the world, throw 96 mph fastballs beat Eddie Van Halen in a guitar solo contest and can have Heather Locklear in a snap of the fingers... ...all before breakfast too!!! 
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So... the only pitches you have ever thrown were across a radar gun??? Surely there were a few practices/games where you were "on" and no gun was there. (That has been my expereince.) |
You must have never seen the movie based on a real story "Rookie of the Year" with Gary Busey  |
It was a shame too, he was a great guy and he always downplayed how good he was when someone brought it up. If anyone diserved the talent and a chance to use it it was him. Too bad he went too hard too early. |
This same thing happends several times a day all over our country. I pitched at a small D-1 school in MD, never got clocked above the low 80's. Never failed I see some donkey I knew during HS back at home in a bar during the summer, telling me since HS he has really gain some speed and now throws mid-90's. The average major league fastball is between 86-88 mph, why the hell some 14 yr old would ever claim 96 mph is simply retarded. |
+1 If you are throwing in the 90s with decent accuracy you can write your own ticket to MLB. Heck, even if you are high 80s with good "material" you can pitch almost anywhere you want. 96mph? And not turn your catcher into a human pretzel behind the plate? That's big market MLB and millions of dollars in your pocket before you can say "fastball." |
yup not uncommon, I was throwing upper 60's at 12, but the percentage of these kids that progress to fastball's in the 90's in pretty small. Alot of young pitchers aren't the ones making it as major league pitchers because they learn to throw junk at a young age which messes there arm up. Also if you notice they sometimes translate the speed of it from 45' to 60' to show what it seems like to the batter. Often times it is upper 90's to 100 mph. Poor kids facing that surprised they ever get a hit. |
Breaking balls ruin young shoulders Parents and coaches get wrapped up in winning now. |
I hear you. They were talking about limiting pitchers to no more than 85 pitches a game. I'm not sure if that will save any arms, but it's got to help as some were reaching the 120 mark. Maybe banning the curve ball would be a better solution. |
Limiting pitches won't do much, banning curve balls would do more. |