I hate that fat fuck.
Of course there's one missing from the tray......Worse than that ... A Doughnut Shop
Yup, pretty horrible person.....
that's ridiculous. So today these candy asses are "conditioned" to throw 175 inn ? Athletes in Kaat's day weren't even close to the condition of these guys today. For crissakes in the off season those guys used to sell fuckin cars and insurance! All this bullshit these clowns have available today and we want to award iron man status to ONE guy who can throw 200 inn! Kaat threw OVER 300 inn 3 times! A 250 inn yr was considered light work in his day.
you obviously weren't around in Kaat's day. I was and can tell you with certainty they threw as hard 30 yrs ago as they do today. I played pro ball in the early 80's and can tell you I NEVER faced a guy who threw under 90 not once. Trying to claim these guys can be "trained" to throw 95 is preposterous. If you knew anything about it you would know it's impossible. A guy can either throw in the 90's or he can't. There is no "training" for it. Further, they are NOT trained to throw in the 90's for 5inn. Granted the expectations of starters today are lower than at anytime in baseball history. That has nothing to do with training.Today's pitchers are conditioned to throw harder than Kaat did regularly...there's a tradeoff between that you're missing.
You're acting like everybody pre-1970 threw 95 mph regularly while pitching 300 innings.....that's not the reality.
The average fastball speed in the past 15 years has increased from about 88.5 to almost 92. How much lower do you think that number was in Kaat's day?
I felt bad when Ogre got killed in Bloodsport......Actually he ends up in the hospital....He's like Frank Dux, radar guns followed him everywhere as a young man.
Big points for anyone who gets that joke/connection.
a few tidbits about pitching
- It takes a 100 mph fastball 396 milliseconds to cover the sixty-feet, six-inch distance between the mound and home plate.
- The 50-millisecond difference between trying to hit a 92 mph fastball versus a 100 mph fastball is immense: “At 92 miles per hour, you can see the seams and MLB logo on the ball, at 100 mph it becomes a golf ball,” says Cleveland Indians second baseman Brandon Phillips.
- Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson’s 1968 season ERA of 1.12 is 35% lower than any other number in the live-ball era.
- The Cuban Missile, Aroldis Chapman, may have thrown a 105.1 mph fastball in 2010 to set a Major League record, but (SPOILER ALERT) when you correct for radar gun placement, Nolan Ryan’s legendary 1974 heater clocked at 100.9 was really the top speed ever, at a blazing 108.5 miles per hour.
- And that, folks, is about the outer limit of human ability; any faster and the force required would literally rip the pitcher’s arm off. (Whoever said physics wasn’t cool?)
