Projected pitching speed

You should shoot for improving your mechanics and increasing your strength and endurance. What comes will come. That is all you can control. You can't control growth.

If you have never worked with a pitching coach, find a top notch PC and take lessons. It is often very difficult to find a good coach. But if you can, it is worth the effort and expense.

Good luck.

Sorry to say but there is no a way to predict future velocity.....those that do predict, use words like potential, or possible, or projected.....

but none of them can give you any real indication...like texan says, what comes will come... again echoing texan, what you can do is maximize what god gave you...with hard work and good mechanics...

In the real world there seems to be no rhyme or reason for velocity......I've seen a 6'4" 220 lb pitcher have a hard tme hitting 80 and then watch a 5'9" 155 pound stringbean hum it in at 90+........

work hard, learn to pitch (not just throw) and make the best of what you have.......who knows !!

Best of luck.......

My guess given your family is that you'll be taller. Based on your numbers I'd guess that you'll increase about 3 to 4 mph due to height increase and given that you haven't matured maybe 7 mph due to maturity. That would put you in the low to mid 80s.

Like others have noted these are just estimates and everyone is different.

Do you have a shot at hitting 90 mph? Yes.

Is it probable? No, although there are a lot of pitchers who can hit 90 the percentage of pitchers who can hit 90 mph is very, very small.

Should that stop you from working hard to reach 90 mph? No, go for it.

The reason CADad talks so specifically, is because he has been recording growth & velocities for a long time (I hope this info. isn't lost when his son grows up). *No one can predict growth. Having said that, all growth indicating charts point to you being much taller. Height isn't everything either. My favorite story is that of our asst. youth coach whom entered college throwing 72mph. By the end of his freshman season, he was throwing 88mph. These things do happen, but, flexability, strength training, yadda, yadda, yadda... You have to make it happen. It is my belief that every athlete can achieve 80. Above that, there is a talent factor.

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My favorite story is that of our asst. youth coach whom entered college throwing 72mph. By the end of his freshman season, he was throwing 88mph.

That sounds like something a COACH would tell his players.

And in 1920 a dying George Gipp told Knute Rockne:

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"Some time, Rock, when the team is up against it, when things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go in there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock. But I'll know about it, and I'll be happy."

[slowly segue in Notre Dame Fight Song

Savannah,
Son grew. Too fast. Got injured. There are drawbacks to growth also.

It also has to do with how they took care of themself during that growth spurt as long as you take care of your arm and dont overthrow you should be fine

Not really. The same growth related injuries happen to people who don't play baseball at all.