3and2Fastball posted:I would say that kids are way better than they were 20 years ago.
20 years ago if you threw 90 you were pretty much guaranteed a Power 5 spot. Nowadays 90 mph is a meatball for the top flight players...
Maybe...but I watch around 40 Triple-A games a year from behind home plate...lots of kids throwing 95 getting lit up because they don't know how to "pitch." Sometimes I think "pitching" is a dying art in the race to light up a radar gun.
BTW, sometimes I think hitting is a dying art too - I see lots of robotic kids doing things at the plate as if they were stamped out by the same hitting instructor over and over....