Glove Radar?

bbforlife100+ posts

Curious if anyone has experience with glove radar. It is my understanding that glove radar measures the speed at which a ball enters the glove and you need to add about 8 mph to that time to get the speed of the ball leaving the players hand. Doing this my son has been throwing around 62+8=70mph. The other day he had a pitching lesson and the instructor (a former college player who is now in the minors) who had never seen my son pitch said he was throwing high 70's and said no way he way only throwing 70. He may have been mistaken but I don't think he is giving us a sales pitch because he didn't seem like that kind of guy and knows this was a one time lesson since he is getting ready to go to spring training. So at the end of the day I will have to get a reading from a better radar gun but in the mean time was wondering if anyone has had any experience with these glove radars being slow or inaccurate?

1/15/044:18 PM

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