Fastball Speed....

• justincredible

  

  Ironman92;887280 wrote:eh....probably a little too fit for you guys.....but she did throw a runner out at 1st base on a thought to be base hit from straight away CF in a high school softball game.
  
  and my sister would replay to that^^^^ cool story bro

  She sounds like a peach. How old is she?
• Ironman92

  

  28
• McFly1955

  

  Probably 75-80 in highschool -- I was a knuckleballin' reliever, I relied on the junk, couldn't throw very hard.
• Tiger2003

  

  Ironman92;887269 wrote:What does being a lefty have to do with it? Billy Wagner, Randy Johnson and Aroldis Chapman are wondering.

  
  Lol nothing really.
• mucalum49

  

  The winter before I went to college I got invited to a Pitt Panthers high school senior camp. Hit 87 while I was there and was psyched. Only to see everyone around me above 90. Fail... Started off my college career throwing about 82-85 at Mount. They had the same training regime as someone posted about Wilmington and my arm eventually got messed up. Turned into a junk ball pitcher at the end of my college career and was pretty good at it actually. I probably needed some sort of surgery but I was a D3 pitcher going no where so I never got it.
• thavoice

  We had a very, very good baseball team back in the day, but no one really used radar guns much at all. I dont think any of our pitchers were clocked. I would say i was usually 78-83 though...and that is just a guess.
  
  
  As others said..there is a difference between hitting a certain speed and throwing a certain speed.
  
  Kid I coached was clocked at 88 on the gun at the clippers stadium during the game. Some would take that as he throws 88. He usually was 82-85 and was that speed for most of the game.
  
  I believe what velocity a person throws like I believe fish stories and how much beer one drank on night. I have to see it myself, or hear it from one of the 3-4 guys I trust that they know what they are talking about.
• mucalum49

  

  Billy Wagner was a boss. He started college as a righty but messed his arm up. Rather than get surgery he taught himself to throw left handed.
• thavoice

  Cant even really trust the guns at games. Kid I coached was in the minors and went to see him pitch. The gun had him at 94-97 all day long and there is no way he threw that hard. He even commented and laughed about it in the interview after the game that the gun was probably around 5mph off
• SnotBubbles

  

  ernest_t_bass;887229 wrote:I topped out at 98 MPH, but couldn't hit a strike zone to save my life.

  Lies.
  
  However, Toby did do the same thing to both of us our senior years. Tried to make us pitchers, and neither of us had control.
  
  I always threw hard and they always tried to make me a pitcher...in Pony League I pitched against one kid...one pitch. When I hit him in the helmet and knocked him unconscious, they never let me pitch again until my Senior year.
• McFly1955

  

  mucalum49;887402 wrote:Billy Wagner was a boss. He started college as a righty but messed his arm up. Rather than get surgery he taught himself to throw left handed.

  false.
  
  Billy Wagner joined Mayhem in the AM on 790 the Zone in Atlanta to discuss his journey, his health, and his role in the clubhouse.
  On throwing left-handed:
  “When I was younger, probably 6, 7, 8 years-old I lived with my grandparents and afternoons I would come home and play hat football. We couldn’t afford a football so we played with a hat. And a guy from across the street named Chip – I still can’t remember his last name after all these years – comes in. He was about 2-3 years older than me and we were playing around and he fell on my right arm and broke my right arm. So I was in my cast and as a kid you want to play, so I played left-handed. And then I get my cast off my right arm. He comes over and breaks it again. He falls on me and breaks it playing football. Having a cast on your right arm for that long, you figure things out a little bit if you want to play and compete with the older kids. So I ended up being left-handed. But that’s the only thing I can do. I can’t do anything else left-handed.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  SnotBubbles;887415 wrote:Lies.
  
  However, Toby did do the same thing to both of us our senior years. Tried to make us pitchers, and neither of us had control.
  
  I always threw hard and they always tried to make me a pitcher...in Pony League I pitched against one kid...one pitch. When I hit him in the helmet and knocked him unconscious, they never let me pitch again until my Senior year.

  I actually had very good control, and was a decent pitcher. My issue was with junk-pitches. Didn't have much, curve didn't always break, etc. I had many hanging curve balls get jacked.
• jmog

  I wasn't a pitcher, but at the "guess your speed" crap in HS/college I could hit 88-89, now I would be lucky to hit 70 since my shoulder has been messed up since college ball.
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  bout 120 kilometers per hour.
• justincredible

  

  Ironman92;887317 wrote:28

  Is she single?
• Ironman92

  

  yeah.....but your wife isn't
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  Ironman92;887509 wrote:yeah.....but your wife isn't

  That's not what she said.
• justincredible

  

  Ironman92;887509 wrote:yeah.....but your wife isn't

  We both like to keep our options open.
• karen lotz

  

  82-84 my freshman and sophomore years of HS. Had a little shoulder trouble towards the end of sophomore year and I assume lost a few MPH in the following years. Last Clippers game I went to I spent about $30 on the gun there trying to hit 80. Couldn't do it and I was pissed.
• balk14

  Tiger2003;887396 wrote:Lol nothing really.

  not true...being a lefty and throwing 88 mph makes you way more of a commodity than a righty throwing 88...leftys are less common than righties and the demand for them is high because the majority of hitters in baseball are right handed (unless youre in the indians line up)...so when you find a decent lefty you chase them
• j_crazy

  

  At my peak. Jr year of high school. 85 with excellent control and absolutely no movement. Now 69 with little control still no movement.
• Curly J

  

  Never was a pitcher so I don't know my speed. Have thrown people out at first from Center and Right fields back in my youth. Now I probably can't even throw a ball due to my damaged shoulder.
  
  BTW was this thread started to try to bring back darbypitcher22 out of hiding ???
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Curly J;887538 wrote:BTW was this thread started to try to bring back darbypitcher22 out of hiding ???

  I don't know, but let's not start a thread called, "How fast can you run 10 miles." We don't want CCRunner out of hiding!
• karen lotz

  

  ernest_t_bass;887540 wrote:I don't know, but let's not start a thread called, "How fast can you run 10 miles." We don't want CCRunner out of hiding!

  Cannot rep this post at the moment, but when I can I will.
• SnotBubbles

  

  karen lotz;887570 wrote:Cannot rep this post at the moment, but when I can I will.

  How many of your usernames did you rep yourself with to get at 3? Looks fishy to me....
• karen lotz

  

  just wls_color and frothy_walrus