How far can Trevor Bauer throw?

Bauer throws at least six days a week with baseballs, weighted balls or medicine balls. He long-tosses 380 feet, even before starts.
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What pitcher can throw 100 mph?

According to Baseball Savant, not only does Duran leads the majors this season with an average splitter speed of 96.2 mph, his four-seam fastball also leads the majors with an average of 100.7 mph. His curveball is second in baseball at an average of 87.7 mph. Nobody comes close to Duran in terms of splitter velocity.
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Who threw 116 mph pitch?

That's not a pitch. Bauer is taking a running start and whipping a 3oz ball a short distance. He threw a ball 116.9 mph, not a pitch. It's semantics, we know.
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What is the farthest baseball ever thrown?

Gorbous holds the current world record for longest throw of a baseball, 135.89m (445 feet, 10 inches). The feat took place on August 1, 1957, while he was playing for the Omaha Cardinals of the American Association.
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Is a 110 mph fastball possible?

The fastest of them tops out at 105 MPH. WIRED examines why the 110 MPH fastball is almost impossible.
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Trevor Bauer throws ball over centerfield wall after a rough 5th inning, a breakdown



How fast could Nolan Ryan throw a fastball?

1. Nolan Ryan. There have been pitchers who can throw harder than Ryan's 100.9 mph fastball. But there will never be another strikeout pitcher who played as long as Ryan did (27 seasons) for as well as he did.
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Can a baseball be hit 600 feet?

Excluding meteorologically strange conditions, a batted ball cannot travel longer than 545 feet. The collision of a bat and baseball lasts only approximately 1/1000 of a second.
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Who hit a baseball 575 feet?

“Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time. '” said Mickey Mantle. Two years to the day after his MLB debut – on April 17, 1953 – future Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle hit one of the furthest recorded home runs in history.
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Has any MLB player ever hit 400?

300 in a season is already regarded as solid. Forty-two players have recorded a batting average of at least . 400 in a single Major League Baseball (MLB) season as of 2021, the last being Willard Brown of the Kansas City Monarchs and Artie Wilson of the Birmingham Black Barons in 1948.
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Who threw a 108 mph pitch?

Nolan Ryan: 108.1 MPH

And the winner is.... Nolan Ryan with a 108.1 MPH reading according to the doppler laser radar readings that were used in 1974. The Ryan Express was really bringing the heat that night in 1974, throwing the fastest pitch ever recorded in a Major League Baseball game.
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Who threw 106 mph?

There actually is a major leaguer who has thrown pitches at 101 mph and has a 106 mph exit velocity on a hit. Jacob deGrom, who was a shortstop for much of his college career at Stetson, had a 106 mph exit velocity on a single in 2015. He also has 47 101-plus mph pitches in his career.
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How rare is a 100 mph pitch?

In the pitch-tracking era (since 2008), there have been 223 MLB pitchers to hit 100 on the radar gun, according to Baseball Savant's Statcast.
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What's Nolan Ryan's fastest pitch?

As far as the technology of the time could tell us, Nolan Ryan threw a 100 mph fastball. Randy Johnson was clocked as high as 102.
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Did Nolan Ryan throw 235 pitches?

On This Date: Nolan Ryan pitched 13 innings, threw 235 (!) pitches and struck out 19. Ian Anderson and 8,219 others like this.
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Has anyone ever hit a 600 foot home run?

Then look up Joey Meyer's home run from 1987; it went nearly 600 feet into the upper level.
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What's Babe Ruth's farthest home run?

Babe Ruth, 575 Feet (1921)
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Who hit a 496 foot HR?

Jesús Sánchez on his 496-foot HR

The Marlins can't take much more from the massive Sánchez homer other than their reactions of sheer awe.
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How fast does a 100 mph fastball reach home plate?

A 100-mph fastball takes roughly 375-400 milliseconds to reach the plate. For reference, the blink of an eye takes 300-400 milliseconds.
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What is the 45 foot rule in baseball?

The line marking the 45-foot (half-way) point of the distance to first base is important. The rule does not come into play until the batter-runner reaches the half-way mark. He cannot be guilty of running lane interference prior to reaching the beginning of the lane.
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Does anyone in the MLB swing a 32 inch bat?

3: Giancarlo Stanton. Stanton also uses a 32-ounce bat, and considering how he is 6'5", 250 pounds, the bat's lightness probably the reason why he can hit home runs like this.
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How fast did Roger Clemens throw?

Although they have not thrown an MLB pitch in 2023, Roger Clemens threw 295 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system in 2007, all of them occuring in the MLB Regular Season. In 2007, they relied primarily on their Fourseam Fastball (91mph), Splitter (86mph) and Slider (85mph), also mixing in a Sinker (91mph).
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How fast did Sandy Koufax throw?

He is sacred.” Koufax was an American baseball legend. He possessed a 100-mph fastball and what announcer Vin Scully called “a twelve-to-six curveball” that started at 12 o'clock then dropped to 6 o'clock. From 1963–1966, he had the best four-year span of any pitcher in baseball history.
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Who threw the hardest fastball ever?

Fastest pitch ever thrown

As a result, Aroldis Chapman is credited with throwing the fastest pitch in MLB history. On Sept. 24, 2010, Chapman made MLB history. Then a rookie relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, the fireballer unleashed a fastball clocked at 105.1 mph by PITCH/fx.
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