March 12, 200917 yr He is gonna be playing in Obama land. I think he has excellent upside but he isn't invincible. His command needs some work but his stuff is nasty. Sorry, but when I see the name Obama, I know nothing good is going to happen!:lol:
March 12, 200917 yr I know he wasn't a pitcher but the word best prospect reminds me of all the old Greg Jeffries cards I have laying around in a shoebox somewhere lol!
March 25, 200917 yr http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=sh-strasburg032409&prov=yhoo&type=lgns 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? Two men holding radar guns as well as his pitching coach said he has touched 103 mph this season. Only three others have done that, and all were major league relief pitchers, not juniors in college. Strasburg is a starter for San Diego State, and his velocity levels off in triple digits, something never seen, not from Nolan Ryan or Randy Johnson or any of the modern fireballers since the advent of the radar gun... :scared:
March 25, 200917 yr Cool (that darned GT:madman:) If you could add this latest article to his thread for me... Thanks:thumb:
March 25, 200917 yr I can't imagine what a fastball coming in at 103 must sound like. I've hit 93-94, and just by going by that you probably dont hear it until its already snapping the mit, but somewhere along that tenth of a second process I'm sure you'll hear a pretty big ziiiiinggg as it goes by. Would take incredible hand eye cord. and bat speed to hang with this guy.
March 25, 200917 yr I can't imagine what a fastball coming in at 103 must sound like. You've got that right. The chances are better that you'll hear it than see it. When I saw this thread title, I thought the subject would be about the lefty from Cuba who throws 100+.
March 25, 200917 yr You've got that right. The chances are better that you'll hear it than see it. . That reminds me of the old baseball joke about the umpire who called a ball on a fireballer and when questioned said "sounded low."
March 25, 200917 yr Imagine how bad he could make people look with off speed stuff. The toughest guy I think I ever batted against (we made a couple of state tourny's) but it was a guy in Little League. He was soooo much taller than all the kids by like a foot! He was right on top of you when he let the ball go and had a curve ball. The worst thing was that he either struck people out or hit them! Could you imagine if this dude starts games plunking a couple of people how hard it would be to stand in and try to hit him! That is bringing the cheese man!
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