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Statcast for @MLB . IG/Threads is also @_dadler

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David Adler

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"Our swings are fast. But I would say it's just a different way." Giancarlo Stanton, Aaron Judge and Juan Soto all have elite bat speed -- but very different swings. I talked to the Yankees' Big 3 sluggers about how their bat speed works for them ➡️

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David Adler

7 years

The co-leaders in the AL batting race

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Ichiro got 3,089 hits. So many hits.

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Zack Greinke eephus curve fun: Greinke's thrown 80 pitches under 70 mph this season -- most in MLB. Hitters are 0-for-31 with 12 K's in at-bats decided on those pitches. Here, sit back and watch him make 12 Major League hitters look silly 🌈

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Brett Baty, Uh Oh (3D tracking) To be fair, I don't know what the heck was going on with that ball

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4 years

This pitch broke 18 inches horizontally ... at 99.1 mph ...

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Dustin May, Filthy 99mph Sinker Movement. 😷

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See if you can spot the balk

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Just think, the Yankees and Red Sox could have been in a snow delay at Yankee Stadium right now

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Ohtani, 101.0 mph K, 104.4 mph HR

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4 years

Albert Pujols, unimpressed with Nestor Cortes Jr. and The Slowest Delivery of All Time

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Tracking Bryce Harper's baserunning on the Braves' game-ending double play You can see where he is when Harris makes the catch

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25-year-old Jacob deGrom in his MLB debut (6 years ago today): 93.9 mph fastball velo 85.2 mph slider velo 84.6 mph changeup velo 31-year-old Jacob deGrom in his last start of last season: 97.7 mph fastball velo 92.7 mph slider velo 91.4 mph changeup velo

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Justin Verlander 101 mph vs. the Yankees in the 2006 postseason at age 23 98 mph vs. the Yankees in the 2022 postseason at age 39

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5 years

Most balls hit 115+ mph, 2019 1. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. -- 4 2-T. Joey Gallo -- 2 2-T. Mike Trout -- 2 2-T. Nelson Cruz -- 2 2-T. Pete Alonso -- 2

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2 years

#MLBFieldVision -- Bobby Witt Jr. makes an 88.6 mph throw in 0.70 seconds to get Andres Gimenez, who had a 29.2 ft/sec sprint speed getting down the line

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3 years

Zack Greinke's 105.9 mph single is the Astros' hardest-hit ball of the game

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3D tracking -- Paul Skenes 100+ mph K's from his Triple-A debut

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5 years

Puig still brawlin' for the Reds and he's not even on the team anymore

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6 years

A's broadcast on Mike Trout, who was chilling in the Angels dugout: "That man right there? Him? Yeah, him. He's better than your dad's favorite player, your dad's dad's favorite player... He's better than all of them."

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4 years

Seaver to Gooden to deGrom (clips via @PitchingNinja )

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1 year

Here's Olivia Pichardo making history as the first woman to play in an NCAA Division I baseball game today for Brown. (First-pitch groundout.)

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10 months

Bobby Witt Jr., insane hands Walk-off grand slam off a 101.8 mph inside fastball from Jhoan Duran T-5th-fastest pitch hit for a HR in the pitch-tracking era (since 2008) No one has homered off a pitch that fast that was out of the strike zone -- let alone *inside*

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David Adler

7 months

Braves win -- Austin Riley cam Sees Harris make the catch and where Harper is, starts signaling to throw to 1st and ends up in the perfect spot to back up the throw and make the play

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David Adler

3 years

Jacob deGrom threw 24 straight fastballs to start the game -- averaging 99.6 mph and topping out at 102.0 mph -- before breaking off a 92.4 mph slider for a swinging strike on his 25th pitch. Lol.

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Trajectory of Shohei Ohtani's 114.3 mph, 39° moonshot home run 162 feet high, 7.0 seconds of hang time

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Michael Harris II's catch -- ball flight tracking 45% catch probability -- and that doesn't fully capture the difficulty of the leap into the wall He needed to cover 92 feet in 5.4 seconds just to get there. His jump was +5.0 feet above average

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David Adler

2 months

Tyler O'Neill acrobatics tracking

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We need a full ⁦biomechanical analysis of Tyler O’Neill’s throw from RF.

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2 years

Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani's back-to-back home runs overlaid 111.4 mph for Trout, 109.4 for Shohei

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3 years

Bryce Harper, different swings for different counts (all from yesterday) 0-strike full stride (foul) vs. 1-strike toe tap (112.8 mph HR) vs. 2-strike no stride (foul)

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3 years

Shohei Ohtani threw a 100.6 mph fastball in the top of the 1st and hit a 115.2 mph, 451 foot home run in the bottom of the 1st ... this is literally unprecedented in baseball

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David Adler

2 years

Joey Gallo had this lineout last night with a 112.5 mph exit velocity and a 22° launch angle. Since Statcast started tracking, there have been 132 balls hit between 112-113 mph and 21-23°. 121 of the other 131 were home runs. Gallo's is the first one ever to be an out.

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Angels' hardest home runs hit since Statcast's intro in 2015 1. Shohei Ohtani: 115.2 mph tonight 2. Mike Trout: 115.0 mph, 6/11/18

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Shohei Ohtani striking out Luis Robert with an 89 mph splitter ... and hitting a 106 mph home run off an 88 mph splitter in the same spot In the same game, of course

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David Adler

7 years

How Javy Baez got Trea Turner at the plate: 86.2 mph arm, 0.63 second exchange. Sub-1 is a fast exchange. That's very fast, plus strong arm.

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4 years

Trevor Bauer mentioned on the KBO broadcast that he glove-signaled a fastball to Nick Castellanos last season to get a long at-bat over with. Here it is. June 16, 10th pitch of the at-bat, Castellanos grounded out.

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David Adler

5 years

Joey Votto popped up to the first baseman today for the first time in his Major League career.

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David Adler

6 years

Of course. It was Statcast gold. Laureano's catch probability: 42% 🌟🌟🌟🌟 He had to go 76 feet in 4.4 seconds Sprint speed: 29.1 ft/sec And oh my goodness, that throw. Arm strength: 91.2 mph Throw distance: 321 feet. On the fly. With perfect accuracy. 😳

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@_dadler Can we get the breakdown on this catch and throw???

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David Adler

3 years

Good point: Try a high fastball approach with Juan Soto, he just won't swing. 174 high fastballs ... ZERO swings.

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@_dadler Him not chasing high is screwing with the current pitching meta loll

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Shohei Ohtani 102 mph vs. Roki Sasaki 102 mph

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5 years

Mike Trout: 98.6 mph, 261-foot assist to the plate

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5 years

This is a 7-year-old Skye Bolt getting tips from Greg Maddux in a 2001 Ingles supermarket commercial. "At Ingles," Maddux says, "one quick stop is all you need to feed a whole roster of future big leaguers." Bolt got called up by the A's today.

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DJ LeMahieu hit a home run off a **48.7 mph** nothing-ball from Santiago Espinal. It's the slowest pitch homered against in the entire pitch-tracking era (since 2008).

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5 years

This is the setup Mike Trout gets on a 3-0 count in a tie game

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The 2-seamer broke 15.9 inches horizontally, from left to right. The slider broke 15.6 inches... in the opposite direction.

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Adam Ottavino, Two Seamer and Slider, Overlay.

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5 years

Chris Davis now has zero hits in his last 61 plate appearances. Ichiro once had a 61-PA stretch between July 24 and August 5, 2004, in which he got 33 hits.

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Jacob deGrom just hit 102.2 mph 🔥

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Pete Alonso, mic'd up after his stretch-n-scoop at first base: "Yeah, that's … I don't know if I was on the bag on that one, though." [sees replay] "Oh, I was on there, hell! Hell yeah!" [sees another replay] "I'm on there! Heeelllllllllllll yeah! There we go!"

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5 years

Clayton Kershaw stares into ump's soul, ties Sandy Koufax with career strikeout No. 2,396

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4 years

MLB average 4-seam fastball velocity right now is 93.4 mph. Jacob deGrom's slider is averaging 93.5 mph.

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2020 average slider velocity leaders... 😂😂😂

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Mike Trout has been thrown 139 pitches clearly outside the strike zone this season. He's only chased *four* times.

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Avg MLB pitcher: 6'3" Shane McClanahan: 6'1" Spencer Strider: 6'0" Avg MLB pitcher extension: 6.4 ft McClanahan's extension: 7.0 ft Strider's extension: 7.0 ft How 2 of the best pitchers in baseball use release extension to make their stuff play up ➡️

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5 years

Jake Arrieta on Bryce Harper getting ejected from the dugout: "We need him in right field. I don't care how bad [the umpire] is. I need him in right field. I need him at the plate. And he wasn't there."

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5 years

Mets fan tries to catch ball in beer, pours beer on Ryan Braun's head

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6 years

Fastest pitches of the MLB season after tonight: 1. Jordan Hicks: 101.6 2. Jordan Hicks: 101.4 3. Jordan Hicks: 101.3 4. Jordan Hicks: 101.0 5-T. Jordan Hicks: 100.9 5-T. Jordan Hicks: 100.9 5-T. Jordan Hicks: 100.9 8-T. Jordan Hicks: 100.8 8-T. Aroldis Chapman: 100.8 #STLCards

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4 years

Ronald Acuña Jr.'s 111.1 mph double is the hardest-hit ball off Trevor Bauer all year

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2 years

Here are all of José Ramírez's home runs as a RHB since 2019 vs. his home run off Shane McClanahan in Game 1

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Pitchers to reach 3,000 career K and 300 season K in the same game: Justin Verlander, 9/28/2019 Randy Johnson, 9/10/2000

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Ohtani did things that baseball hasn't seen in 100 years. Andujar hit a lot of doubles.

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Bat paths -- Aaron Judge's home run vs. Juan Soto's home run tonight

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David Adler

6 years

A Mike Trout dilemma Trout's chase rate is just 15.7%, 8th-lowest of 162 hitters to see 100+ out-of-zone pitches. So what can you do but come to him? On in-zone pitches, Trout is slugging .771 -- 3rd-highest in MLB, min. 40 AB decided in-zone. So how can you throw him a strike?

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David Adler

6 years

Madison Bumgarner hit a 445-foot home run today. #SFGiants

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Mike Trout's 5-for-5, 4 XBH game at Yankee Stadium, Statcasted: 1) 109.4 mph double 2) 97.9 mph double with 29.0 ft/sec sprint speed 3) 106.8 mph, 419-foot HR 4) 111.2 mph double 5) Infield single with 30.9 ft/sec sprint speed (30+ = elite) and 3.96-second home-to-1st time

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Pitcher Wins Above Replacement 1. Jacob deGrom: 6.2 2. Aaron Nola: 6.1 3. Chris Sale: 6.0 4. Max Scherzer: 5.2 5. Luis Severino: 4.5 Pitcher Wins (for the five above) Severino: 14 Scherzer: 13 Nola: 12 Sale: 11 deGrom: 5

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David Adler

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Nate Eaton, position player gas ⛽ * 93.3 mph with 17" of run for a whiff 😳 * 94.9 mph (fastest pitch) 🔥 * 92.5 mph for a K 👊

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Vince Velasquez's diving play in LF -- which had a 15% catch probability, per Statcast -- is the first 5-star catch by a Phillies outfielder this season.

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5 years

Cool view of what it looks like to have Jacob deGrom throwing you 93 mph sliders

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6 years

Everyone knows Michael Kopech throws insanely hard. Now, we know he also has elite spin rate. In his 1st inning, Kopech's 4-seamer averaged *2,629 rpm.* MLB average is 2,262 rpm. Justin Verlander, the highest-spin starter, is averaging 2,613 rpm. He's gonna get a lot of whiffs.

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Jacob deGrom threw his first complete game in a Cy Young season. The final at-bat -- a game-ending groundout from Nick Williams: Pitch 106: 98.3 mph Pitch 107: 99.0 mph Pitch 108: 99.1 mph (groundout) Those were, successively, his three fastest pitches of the game.

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5 years

The home run that broke MLB's single-season record was hit by the Orioles, the team that's given up more home runs this season than any other in history. Ironic.

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5 years

A story on Joey Votto's insane control of the strike zone:

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Devin Williams' changeup: 84.1 mph / 2,852 rpm 40.9" vert. movement 18.1" horiz. movement Adam Ottavino's slider: 81.0 mph / 2,862 rpm 40.2" vert. movement 17.9" horiz. movement So, picture Ottavino throwing that slider as a lefty. Somehow that's what Williams' changeup is like

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19 of Jacob deGrom's 27 starts have come against teams currently over .500. In those 19 starts, he has a 1.47 ERA and is striking out 11.12 batters per 9 innings.

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Giancarlo Stanton: 119.3 mph. 15°. That's the hardest home run in MLB this year. AND tied for the lowest. What a laser!

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Xander Bogaerts' relay to get Aaron Judge at the plate in the AL Wild Card Game -- with #MLBFieldVision Overhead view + Bogaerts tracker

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5 years

If you saw Zack Greinke's fielding clinic in Game 7 of the World Series, you understand why he won his 6th Gold Glove. You might not understand how an AL pitcher wins the NL Gold Glove, but don't worry about it

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3D tracking: Julio Rodríguez 5-star catch 15% catch probability He covered 60 feet in 3.6 seconds And No Fly Zone 🙅‍♀️

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Daniel Bard, who didn't pitch in MLB for 7 years because of the yips, now has 12 strikeouts and ZERO walks in 8 outings -- the most games and most K's without a walk of any pitcher. He has a 0.40 FIP. Bard's not just a feel-good story. He's dealing. ➡️

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CC Sabathia on pitching to the sons of Hall of Famers: "When I'm facing Cavan Biggio, and Vlad Jr., it's time for me to go home."

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#MLBFieldVision -- Javy Baez picks a short-hop deep in the hole at shortstop and makes a long throw to get Andrew Vaughn

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Pete Alonso's 474-foot home run today is longer than all 57 of the ones he hit in the Home Run Derby

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6 years

Jacob deGrom has a 1.71 ERA. He's now 8-9. The qualified starter with the highest ERA in baseball, Lucas Giolito, has a 5.76 ERA -- more than four full runs higher than deGrom's. He's 10-10.

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David Adler

5 years

Fun fact: Morton's 2-seamer and curveball both average the exact same 18.6 inches of horizontal movement ... but they move in the exact opposite direction.

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Charlie Morton, 94mph Fastball and 80mph Curveball Spin, Overlay

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Ohtani, sinker/slider Sinker: 16 inches of break ➡️ Slider: 17 inches of break ⬅️

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Shohei Ohtani in one series just hit 1,743 feet of home runs to the opposite side of the field 🤯

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7 years

Marwin: "George, you're making a scene."

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5 years

Josh Bell hit a 472-foot home run clear out of PNC Park and into the Allegheny River.

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Masataka Yoshida's first MLB home run 104.6 mph to the opposite field against a 96.2 mph fastball that was 3.46 feet high Fun fact: He's the only lefty in the pitch-tracking era (since 2008) to go oppo over the Green Monster off a pitch that hard and that high

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#MLBFieldVision -- Shohei Ohtani front-door slider with 18 inches of break

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Shohei Ohtani vs. Dylan Cease 115.2 mph / 451 foot HR on 4/4/21 113.0 mph / 446 foot HR on 6/26/23

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David Adler

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2019 strikeout leaders regular season + postseason 1. Gerrit Cole: 358 2. Justin Verlander: 329 3. Stephen Strasburg: 284 4. Max Scherzer: 270 5. Patrick Corbin: 264 Top 5 all in the World Series

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David Adler

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Glasnow's ꓘ of Alvarez: 99.0 mph 2,808 rpm (MLB avg. 2,288 rpm) 👀 7.8 feet of extension

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Tyler Glasnow, 99mph Paint. 🖼️🖌️🎨

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This pitch had 64.8 inches of drop, but only 2.4 inches of horizontal movement. That's as 12-6 as 12-6 gets.

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Ross Stripling, Stunning 79mph Curveball. 🌈

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3D tracking -- Francisco Lindor gets picked off and I'm pretty sure he saw Nico Hoerner going to the inside of the bag and swerved into the path of the throw to force the error

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Players who've thrown a 100 mph fastball and hit a 100 mph home run in the same game, Statcast era Shohei Ohtani (Angels) Noah Syndergaard (now Angels)

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5 years

deGrom's slider will do this to a man

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Fernando Tatis Jr. throw: 93.4 mph MLB avg. fastball velocity: 93.0 mph

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5 years

Lol, sorry, Hansel Robles, but you are certainly not allowed to do this

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Every single Devin Williams changeup this season has had at least 17 inches of horizontal break. The airbender is the only pitch in baseball that breaks the full width of home plate 100% of the time. Pitch movement is now searchable on Baseball Savant 😁

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Made with real sabermetrics

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#MLBFieldVision -- Hunter Renfroe's circus catch

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Pete Alonso hit a 113.8 mph double. The Mets have only hit nine balls harder than that in the 4+ seasons of Statcast tracking.

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