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Reply to "Questioning how fast to be small D1 pitcher"

I was fortunate to be able to watch a BigTen team weekend series. They payed my son's small D1 to come down and play them.

They had one kid who touched 97 once and another who touched 93-94.
Maybe two dozen or so pitches above 90. Majority 84-89.
Our guys all throw 85-89 maybe touch 90 with a tailwind.
Plenty of 78-80 breaking balls and change ups from both sides.

Aside from those standout pitchers, the obvious difference between the two teams was the size of the players.
BigTen was all well over 6 feet and 200#+. The majority of our guys are not.

We took the series 3 games out of 4. Their one win required ten innings and 15 runs to beat us.
Team chemistry and heart go a long way.

If a guy can touch 84-85 a few times during his session he'll get looks from small D1s.
He'll also need command, control and good grades, obviously.

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