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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
How do you know what his fastest pitch ever was? There was no public radar readings in the late 60/early 70's when Ryan started. Your inference that somehow Ryan was not throwing that fast when he was Strausburgs age is faulty. Ryan had already pitched over 200 major league innings at the same age that SS is going to debut at as well. There is zero evidence that throwing a baseball a certain mph causes injuries. In fact the fastball is generally considered to be the kindest and most straight forward pitch a player can throw.
I'm not sure why you think that Nolan Ryan wasnt regularly throwing as fast as SS. As for SS, he doesnt rely on throwing the ball over 100 mph. I'm not sure where you got that impression. The guy throws very hard but lives in the 95-98 range with very good breaking balls, a hard slider and slurve. He has even mixed in a little changeup though it may not be ready for too much MLB exposure.
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That may be true on Ryan, I know he hit 100.9 in 1974 but I don't know what sort of radars they had before that, so maybe he was throwing harder earlier. He was a freak though, we'll have to see if Strasburg is.
So far he is throwing in that range in the minors and if he can do that in the majors and get away with it he will be very good. In college he was throwing much harder and was hitting and exceeding 100 with regularity. If he has to do that in the majors I think he is in trouble.