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3and2Fastball10,000+ posts

justbaseball posted:
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.

I would tend to agree with that in terms of pitching being a dying art ... Although I think that will come back around as Spin Rate & tracking pitching movement will become more & more part of "measureables"

Look at the flip side of what you are saying, though: AAA hitters are routinely squaring up 95 mph pitches. 20 years ago, hitters did not do that as frequently.

9/5/1910:46 AM

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