Where are all of our pitching guys? It would be great to hear their thoughts. As I have mentioned before, there was a time here where everyone's dd pitched 60+ and many 65+. Were they fudging? I know that @riseball daughter could bring it and she proved it. This tread brought me back to the old days when Javasource, Pauley, and my good buddy BoardMember were frequent flyers.
As an fyi, my dd topped out at 63 at the xxx camp. I mentioned that here after the camp. Could she sustain that? Who knows? It was the only time I think that she was ever gunned. At this camp, they said that they wanted her bat. That pretty much ended her pitching career. She wanted to be a hitter more than a pitcher and most schools then were wanting one or the other. She did not pitch her senior year of HS and ended up with a career HS record of 29-1.
I wonder if more reliable radar devices available to everyone now has made it easier to prove what speeds people pitch. It may not even be people were lying previously just that devices weren’t as accurate. As someone mentioned above I also have a Diamond Kinetics ball that consistently reads several MPH faster than a pocket radar. If that is all I had I could be stating a number that I believe is the truth, that is off by a good bit.
Not many dads sitting on a bucket had access to reliable radar devices even ten years ago. Probably a lot of guessing going on.
I just don’t see why people exaggerate anymore. Most coaches even at the travel level can pull a radar gun out of their pocket and know in seconds how honest you have been with them.
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