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Watch Tennessee Pitcher Throw 103.5 Miles Per Hour
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Making his Tennessee debut after missing all of 2021 recovering from Tommy John surgery, the Vols junior pitcher threw Ben Joyce threw a 103.5-mph fastball on Wednesday...
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Get used to baws. 103 mph. Sit the fck down!
Reply15 months
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JR Richard says, "hold my beer"...
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then he had a stroke on the field at practice or warming up.
15 months
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Read a report that said 105 mph is the absolute limit for velocity. Anything above that will shatter bones unless they start modifying them surgically. Chapman for the Reds threw that hard. And commenter earlier mentioned the radar guns. Popular Mechanics had an article about this topic years ago and said modern guns give about +5 mph to all pitches during games because of where they are located at along with their design.
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Did he do this last year or was he just holding back.
15 months
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105 is not the absolute limit but the faster you throw the more dangerous it is to the batter. That is two separate but distinct facts.
15 months
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The article he is talking about was in Popular Mechanics and said 105 is "testing the limits" of torque the elbow can take/create. But like he says, the radar guns may be a bit off. The UCL can only withstand so much. Everybody's is made of the same stuff and the article states that throwing at 105 is on par with having a 60lb weight hanging off of your hand at that awkward cocked position. There is most definitely a limit to how fast you can throw a ball unless you start finding ways to increase the amount of torque a UCL can take.
15 months
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Ben McDonald could get up over 100. Miss watching him pitch.
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Guns are Definitely not the same. Ask Randy Johnson.
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Impressive. But his 4 seam looks flat. Major league hitters will be all over it
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Gardenhosser get in there
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frick Tennessee.
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BS...that gun is off
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Initially I thought the same, but watching them wave at it....he's bringing it and seems to be effortless.
15 months
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Multimillion dollar arm waiting to happen. Bet he's already a chick magnet...
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Damn.
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yep … Damn, I see that too
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