NCAA college baseball talk!

[sportscoach]

I figured this would be something good to put in the minors. We can talk about teams, players etc in this thread. I am not a huge college watcher since there is very little on TV, but if anyone likes watching and/or talk about teams and/or players, let's get some talk in here and something for us to follow!

 

[sportscoach]

First thing I wanted to talk about is the right hander Ben Joyce from Tennessee...

He hit 103.5 mph on his fastball and it looks like he has a 90 mph changeup... He is listed at 6'6 225. He lost time from Tommy John surgery so it seems like he is back and healthy and throwing harder than before it seems like

@jup

Sorry my phone doesn't like to copy and paste in here for whatever reason, but I would be interested to see if he can keep that type of velo long term in your expert opinion...

 

[jup]

First thing I wanted to talk about is the right hander Ben Joyce from Tennessee...

He hit 103.5 mph on his fastball and it looks like he has a 90 mph changeup... He is listed at 6'6 225. He lost time from Tommy John surgery so it seems like he is back and healthy and throwing harder than before it seems like

@jup

Sorry my phone doesn't like to copy and paste in here for whatever reason, but I would be interested to see if he can keep that type of velo long term in your expert opinion...

Not sure about 103.5, because when you talk about hitting a number, that is a peak. But maintaining 100 to 101 sure. Maintaining it out into the future .... depends on how hard he (or maybe I should say they) wants to work. Research says peak physical prime is around 32, so there is no reason pitchers can't hold their velocity at least to that point if not beyond. So is that maintaining .... guess that is in the eyes of the beholder or what their definition is. But there have been pitchers that have done that. But it takes a dedicated effort. I think Nolan Ryan may be the best example although there are others.

Used to be they put the limit at 105 to what the human body could generate. Haven't looked in several years as to whether there has been any recent research that has upped it from there. But as you go to the limit, whatever it is, the timing (in the ten of thousandths of seconds) of everything to generate that velo has to be perfect. And clearly anything that demands that kind of timing in the neuromuscular system based around responses that have to do with spatial position of various body parts is going to be inherently hard to replicate. Thus, you get peak velocity when all the timing is close to proper. But that is why it is peak and not where someone sits. It is the rare case. The one that is a couple standard deviation from the norm.

 

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