Strasburg is on the all-time fastest track
SAN DIEGO – The radar gun blinks wildly. It’s not used to this. No one makes it strain to read out a third digit. It looks like binary code, not the speed of a pitch from a 20-year-old kid: 101.
It keeps showing up, 101 again and again, and as scouts peek at the number, they ask aloud what everyone else in the baseball world wonders: Will Stephen Strasburg someday throw a baseball harder than anyone has before?
EVERY TIME I HEAR ONE OF THE STORIES I ALWAYS LOOK FOR THE DATE AND IT ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE CLOSE TO APRIL FIRST.
GEORGE PLIMPTON WILL FOREVER MAKE ME WONDER.
And Stephen will probably throw his arm off before he reaches the show.
I hope not but gee whiz...it's only an arm and things happen.
HERE'S THE CHART FOR FAST PITCHERS
Fast company
| Team | MPH | Year | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joel Zumaya | Detroit Tigers | 104 | 2006 | 21 |
| Stephen Strasburg | San Diego State | 103 | 2009 | 20 |
| Matt Anderson | Detroit Tigers | 103 | 1998 | 22 |
| Mark Wohlers | Atlanta Braves | 103 | 1995 | 25 |
| Aroldis Chapman | Team Cuba | 102 | 2008 | 21 |
| Matt Lindstrom | Florida Marlins | 102 | 2007 | 27 |
| Justin Verlander | Detroit Tigers | 102 | 2007 | 24 |
| Bobby Jenks | Chicago White Sox | 102 | 2006 | 25 |
| Randy Johnson | Arizona D’backs | 102 | 2004 | 40 |
| Armando Benitez | N.Y. Mets | 102 | 2002 | 29 |
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