Texas A&M coach Jim Schlossnagle marvels at today’s youngsters being more...
Tennessee’s Ben Joyce had the fastest pitch in college baseball history recently with a 105.5 mph pitch against Auburn.COLLEGE STATION — Chris Cortez’s opponents are aware the Texas A&M righthander’s fastball registers nearly 100 miles per hour.It’s why Cortez zeroed in the past few months on developing a solid second pitch, knowing he could no longer lean on heat to blow past batters, as he did in high school in Las Vegas.
Fast is fast, however, and first-year A&M coach Jim Schlossnagle, like many others, is amazed by the pop on fastballs during the past few decades. “Maybe that’s a little bit in the back of my head,” a smiling Joyce told reporters after throwing 105.5 against Auburn. “But at the end of the day, I’m just trying to help this team win.”
“Hopefully before his time finishes as an Aggie he’ll be a complete pitcher — then you have a first-rounder.” The average velocity of a four-seam fastball in 2008 was 92 mph; a decade later it had jumped to 94 mph, according to Baseball Savant — a big-time leap considering baseball already had been around more than a century in 2008.
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