They loved Kolek so much they used the second overall pick in the draft on him. Kolek reported to rookie ball, where in 22 innings he walked 13 and gave up 17 runs. The next year the Marlins babied him through 25 starts in Class A ball—allowing him just innings.
The next year, , Kolek blew out his elbow in spring training. He underwent Tommy John surgery and missed 15 months. This year he missed half the season with a bum shoulder, and when he did come back he worked mostly out of the bullpen. In five seasons since the Marlins burned the No. He has never thrown a pitch above A ball. The three hardest throwers in Perfect Game events have been busts without ever getting to the majors.
The Rangers traded him to the Giants, who released him after one minor league season at age On that day in August in San Diego in , the major league future must have seemed impossibly bright for not just Kolek, but also the many kids who paraded to the mound at Petco Park throwing as hard as big leaguers. Kolek was one of 11 teenagers that day who threw between 93 and 99 mph. Five of those 11 schoolboy pitchers have undergone shoulder or elbow surgery.
The casualties include Keaton McKinney, who underwent two Tommy John surgeries at Arkansas and never played professionally.
They also include Michael Kopech. Alex Cora is easily the best of the rookie managers. He benefited greatly from a year as the bench coach of the Houston Astros. He keeps a terrific balance between challenging his players he has pushed hard for Xander Bogaerts to raise his game and winning their confidence.
He has been bold enough to admit mistakes he once admitted he forgot to get J. Martinez out of the outfield with a big lead , but has made few of them.
Remember, it was Cora who pushed for Boston to dump Hanley Ramirez. Remember him? People were afraid Ramirez would be missed when Boston played the Yankees or would come back to haunt the Red Sox. Cora saw a player whose bat had slowed and had no defensive skills.
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The thinking is that you can teach movement but you can't teach someone to throw that hard. Plus most pitching coaches can add five to ten MPH to your fastball the next stage is getting good movement. So John J your wrong but you are right in the aspect that anyone with a chance of moving on averages about that.
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TR, would be what level of HS? TR, Thats bringing it! If not, based on your experiences what range would you fit the elite lefties in? There is no average high school speed. You would have to know the speed of every pitcher in high school baseball to get the average. No one knows that. The very best of course throw much better than BetterthanJeter, for a high school senior is lower than average. Anything less than 72 is very slow, shouldn't be pitching. Dangerous advice about throwing the splitter by BetterthanJeter.
It is very hard on the arm especially the elbow in young pitchers. Doc Great advice TRhit. Think of what throwing 90 at 14 or 15 years old can do to an arm. Throwing at that speed has a high risk of messing up undeveloped bone, ligament, tendon, and muscle tissue.
It is best to not worry about velocity. Roger Clemens was throwing 81 mph when he graduated high school. Besides, your boy is a lefty and based upon the draft leftie's average velocites were miles an hour less than right hander's. This puts the arm velocity he needs to get looked at would have to be around But the key to really getting looked at is having command of at least three of your pitches with some good fastball movement and deceptive off-speed pitches.
Presently, I am a high school junior that just turned 16 and a lefthander, I am consistently , depending on the rest I have had in between starts, and have been recruited by almost 30 of the top D-1s in the country.
So, don't worry about velocity, worry about how well he hits his spots and his movement on his pitches. That will get him further than throwing a ball through a brick wall, but misses the brick wall everytime because he has no control. This is the lhp, not the momoflhp. Average speed, it depends who holds the gun. It's funny that those who have nothing vested always have a slow gun, or on a kids off day. Also, what is average, 3 innings, 1st inning. Over the coarse of a game, I like TR's That is the average for yo old travel teams in So Calif..
Most of the top 12 yo's throw low 70s So I guess it really depends on the area. The top P on most HS teams in our area throw upper 80s or more. And the slowest is throwing at least Plus if you are throwing low 80s you better have great control and some other pitch or you will get hammered. I estimate the average in So Cal for Varsity pitchers is And there are very few if any that can't throw at least Each session they clock every ones throwing velocity from the mound.
They keep track of the best players over the last years. So for players in the summer between their 8th and 9th grade College and Beyond Once a pitcher leaves high school, they have most likely reached their maximum fastball velocity, although some small gains are definitely possible. The average fastball for these upper level pitchers are 90 mph, but there will always be some guys who can light up the radar gun near mph. At the lower levels of college baseball, there will still be guys in the low to mid 80s.
Changeups for this group should be at about a 15 mph drop, bringing the velocity near the upper 70s. It is very likely that you are still growing, and your velocity may continue to increase. These numbers are an estimate, and there are no set rules about how hard you must throw.
Look at Greg Maddux! He throws the ball in the mid 80s and is considered one of the best in the game. One of the big misconceptions in baseball is that playing the game keeps you in shape to pitch. I wish that was true. It's not.
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