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inTaCtfuL posted...

Because these pitchers are killing themselves by pitching max effort every time. Look at degrom, throwing 100 pitches with triple digits heat every fifth day is not good for the body, hell pitching itself isn't good but these players are pushing it to the limit, no wonder why they only last like 5 innings and get hurt all the time, they just go full throttle.

Then these old heads bitch and moan how pitchers these days are wimps that can only last 5 innings knowing damn well that most pitchers back then threw in the high 80s/low 90s and that 95 was considered exceptional and with bullpens back then being absolutely shit.

its actually a widely held belief on boomer baseball twitter that many pitchers back in the day threw just as fast as guys today except the speed guns just werent as accurate back then. lol.

but yeah mlb kinda let pitching development get away from them. when pitching became too good the solution was to juice the balls and that just... made teams try even harder to get guys to have even more elite spin/velo. and now every team has multiple guys throwing 100 (except for the rockies prob lolololol).

then they added the shift ban, pitch clock, reduced mound visits, made facing 3 batters automatic, and ended pickoffs which leads to more hits, more steals, and reduced in-game rest... all things that hurt pitching (physically or mechanically for the sport) and benefit offense! only making it more important to get the spin and velo!

very confusing. not sure how they make throwing 91 viable. hitters are too well adjusted to velo now.