What is Max Velocity? Anecdotal or Emperical ?
Strider averaged 97.2 mph last season reached 99-100 mph. Megill 93-94 topping out 95 Luis Gill Avg. 96.9. maxed out 99.7 Skubal 96-97. topping out at 100 Carlton, Gibson, Seaver, Ryan ? Skenes
• Skenes' strikeout of Miles Mastrobuoni in the second inning registered at 101.2 mph, matching his own record for the fastest strikeout by a Pirate pitcher in the pitchtracking era (since 2008). Pitch Fx
• He became just the third pitcher in the pitch-tracking era to strike out the side on pitches registering at least 100 mph, joining Hunter Greene (Sept. 17, 2022 and Oct. 3, 2022) and Bobby Miller (July 5, 2023).
There might not be a solution to the pitching injury problem in baseball. If you sort the research and data on the subject to answer the questions most asked about the subject, you don't end up in a place where there's an easy way forward. What is the main source of pitcher injury?....Velocity Are pitchers getting hurt because they are throwers, not pitchers now? Are analytics to blame? Are the injuries because of all the breaking balls? What role does the pitch clock have in injury? Does sticky stuff (and its ban) have any role in the injury increase? Could year-round throwing be the problem? Are there better mechanics out there that could solve the problem? There have been findings that have come out of the emergent study of biomechanics. Certain relationships between your landing foot, your trunk rotation and your shoulder movement have been deemed better than others. Some think they've got the perfect mechanics that will ensure a way out of this problem. But Casey Mulholland, who runs Kinetic Pro, a private player development lab, outlined a problem with blaming it all on mechanics. “Let's say you've got a pitcher with a three-quarter arm slot — that means more stress, more valgus torque,” Mulholland said. “He comes to Tampa and I magically change his arm action to produce the same velo more over the top, and now he throws with less torque. Well, with the cleaned-up arm action, he can now throw harder. And the one thing we know that increases stress is velo, sooooo. “Our brain passes messages s to our muscles, forearm flexors in this case, via the central nervous system to contract at just the right moment to offload the stress applied to the UCL. When we become fatigued our brain doesn't pass this message as well, the muscles don't contract at the ‘optimal time' or the ‘optimal amount' and we end up not being able to offload this stress. The UCL then wears more of a direct stress. Over time, under fatigue, the load of throwing eventually overcomes the tissue tolerance and boom, UCL tear. “This is why workload management is the only logical answer to slow the injury rate,” thinks Mulholland. “Workload management predicts the possible time at which an athlete might experience too much lo
• “It's a big boy throwing a heavy baseball,” said Cubs outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong. “He does a really good job with mixing and everything. But it's tough to hit anybody that throws 100-plus with two to three really good secondary pitches and a sinker that moves like a changeup at 95.” .
• The velocity held, too. Skenes' 100th pitch clocked in at 100 mph, blowing past Mike Tauchman for his 11th strikeout. It was an exclamation point on his day and inevitable first win, something that impressed everyone, with maybe the exception of his catcher.