What would you say the average fastball speed for a varsity high school pitcher would be?
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quote:I have no real way of knowing, but would guess somewhere around 80-81 mph would be average.
quote:'Round these parts, 78 is well below average for the guys who actually get to pitch on a varsity level, and I would expect to see a 78 mph fastball tatooed pretty regularly.
quote:Fact: Average top out speed for a high school varsity pitcher is about 78, maybe a bit less. I've seen plenty of good ones who throw 70. Bet that 90% of HSs in the U.S. never had one 90 mph pitcher...ever.
quote:Originally posted by TRhit:
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Unless one gets out and sees every game of every team one will never know what the averages are--there is no way you can go, no offense guys, by HS coaches word because most never put a gun on their pitchers and estimate what they throw and then, when you see them they at least 5 MPH slower.
I have learned to take only the word of people I know well when it comes to a pitchers mph.
quote:Originally posted by PGStaff:
Now if you wish to talk about the high end events… the average would be mid 80s or better. In Jupiter last fall 214 high school pitchers topped out at 88 mph or better in one tournament (average more than three per team). About 100 were 90 or better. If the hurricane had not taken 13 teams that total would have been much higher. In fact it was much higher the previous year when around 150 (if memory serves me) were 90 mph or better. That’s the high level! And no the average was not 80-81. For every 90 there wasn’t a 70.
80-81 is my opinion (maybe a bit higher some places, lower in others), your opinion is 75. I could very well be wrong, but neither one of us could possibly know. No one can answer the question accurately, the information just doesn’t exist. Why is it that you know and others have no idea?
Anyway, if on a 4 man staff a high school has one mid 80s pitcher, it would mean the other three, top at 70mph. For every pitcher who throws 80 mph someone would need to top at 70 to average 75.
I have no way of knowing for sure, but how many high schools have very many varsity pitchers who throw less than 70 mph or an entire staff that can’t throw over 75 mph? I do know to average 75 it means most have to throw less than that.
quote:where do you get that statistic --about 78 mph?
quote:A few years ago we spent two weeks watching high school baseball in the Houston, TX area. Saw more than a dozen different teams. I’m fairly sure we never saw a pitcher under 80 mph.
quote:and the average joe's ( who micdsguy watches) are around 80.
quote:At the risk of creating further controversy on this topic I will refrain from sharing the average readings of the tassle of big league pitchers today at game. Sat directly behind "several" stalkers and could not believe my eyes.
I was shocked...
quote:He was told by coach he'd be varsity then last week there was a transfer from another state.. an older RHP with an 88 MPH fastball. My son found out today and is very disappointed but determined.