What pitchers throw over 100 mph?

Only 11 pitchers have hit 103 mph even once in a regular-season game, and only three have thrown more than 10 such pitches.
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Hunter Greene reaches 101 mph
  • Aroldis Chapman: 273.
  • Jordan Hicks: 61.
  • Mauricio Cabrera: 11.
  • Bruce Rondón: 7.
  • Henry Alberto Rodriguez: 5.
  • Joel Zumaya: 4.
  • Tayron Guerrero: 4.
  • Bobby Parnell: 2.
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Do any MLB pitchers throw 100 mph?

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. Almost half of those have happened since 2018. The Twins have had only four pitchers reach triple digits in this era: Duran, Jorge Alcala, Brusdar Graterol and Juan Morillo.
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Who threw a 108 mph pitch?

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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Who threw 106 mph pitch?

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 many MLB starting pitchers throw 100 mph?

A 100 mph fastball is not very common in baseball. In fact, there have only been 23 pitchers who have thrown a 100 mph fastball in MLB history. The last pitcher to do it was Aroldis Chapman in 2010.
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Is it possible to throw a 110 mph fastball?

The fastest of them tops out at 105 MPH. WIRED examines why the 110 MPH fastball is almost impossible.
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Did Nolan Ryan throw 100 mph?

The most widely quoted response is Nolan Ryan, whose fastball was "officially" clocked by the Guinness Book of World Records at 100.9 miles per hour in a game played on August 20, 1974, versus the Detroit Tigers. A record that's still included in the book.
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Who threw 110 mph fastball?

The legend of Steve Dalkowski is well known.
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Who threw 107 mph?

Tennessee Volunteers pitcher Ben Joyce recently fired the fastest pitch in college baseball history. The 6-foot-5 right-hander delivered multiple pitches over 102 MPH, a mark even big leaguers struggle to hit.
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How fast could Nolan Ryan pitch?

It's why Nolan Ryan isn't officially credited for throwing the fastest pitch. When the Hall of Famer was unleashing heat from 1966-1993, his fastball was being tracked closer to the plate. He was still credited with hitting 100 mph multiple times, topping out at 100.9 mph.
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What is the fastest pitch Nolan Ryan threw?

Nolan Ryan: 108.1 MPH.
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What's the fastest pitch in MLB history?

The Fastest Pitch Ever: Aroldis Chapman's 106 MPH Heater

On September 24, 2010, former Cincinnati Reds pitcher Aroldis Chapman, who hails from Cuba, delivered a 105.1-mph fastball, measured by Statcast, in a game against the San Diego Padres, which is recognized as the Guinness World Record for fastest pitch ever.
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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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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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How fast was Randy Johnson'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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How fast was Babe Ruth's fastball?

Babe Ruth was a legendary baseball player and one of the most popular athletes in history. He is best known for his home run record, but he also had an impressive throwing ability. What is this? A study found that Babe Ruth threw the ball with an average speed of 97 miles per hour.
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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 a 105 mph fastball?

Ben Joyce is a source of history and of mystery. The 21-year-old right-hander can throw a baseball harder than anybody else in the world. But how far can that fastball take him? You might have seen the pitch that made Joyce, a redshirt junior reliever at Tennessee, a household name in the baseball universe.
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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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Who threw 104 mph pitch?

Helsley hits 104.2 mph for fastest pitch of '22

MILWAUKEE -- For the third time, Cardinals All-Star closer Ryan Helsley threw the fastest pitch of the MLB season by firing a 104.2 mph fastball to Brewers slugger Rowdy Tellez on Tuesday night at American Family Field.
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Who is the wildest pitcher ever?

Tony Mullane is the all-time leader in wild pitches with 343 career. Mullane is also the only player to throw more than 300 career wild pitches.
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Is it possible to throw 108 mph?

The year 1974 was a watershed year of sorts for how we have come to measure the speed of a pitch.
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Who throws the hardest fastball in MLB?

1. Jhoan Duran, RP, Twins. Duran is the only pitcher in MLB averaging better than 100 mph on his fastball, and he's been a dominant reliever for Minnesota. He has a 2.81 ERA and 36/4 K/BB in 25.2 innings with four saves.
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Who is the hardest throwing pitcher in baseball?

Earl Weaver, who had years of exposure to both pitchers, said, "[Dalkowski] threw a lot faster than Ryan." The hardest throwers in baseball currently are recognized as Aroldis Chapman and Jordan Hicks, who have each been clocked with the fastest pitch speed on record at 105.1 mph (169 km/h).
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Who threw the fastest fastball in history?

Fastest Pitchers in Baseball History
  • Dwight Gooden (Tie) Top speed: 100.0 miles per hour (1990) ...
  • Bartolo Colon (Tie) Top speed: 100.0 miles per hour (1999) ...
  • Roger Clemens (Tie) Top speed: 100.0 miles per hour (2001) ...
  • Josh Beckett (Tie) ...
  • Joba Chamberlain. ...
  • Billy Wagner (Tie) ...
  • Tony Pena (Tie) ...
  • Guillermo Mota (Tie)
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