Spring Velocities

[Kenny Powers]

I've been tracking all our pitchers velocities this Spring and thought I'd share some data in case others are interested.

Notes/Disclaimers:

1.)  All data came from MLB Game Day summaries

2.)  Speed shown is the fastest pitch I found for each guy in any of of their Spring outings so far.

3.)  There was not any speed detail available on some days/games.  So I don't have info on two guys (Blewett and Boushley).

4.)  Because almost 40 guys have thrown so far, I'll only list the high end guys in this post which I define as over 95 mph.

5.)  Obviously - this list can/will change.  Example, I just saw Jeff Brigham hit 96.2 today and he was below 95 in his other appearances.

 

So here they are in descending order:

101.1  Jhoan Duran

98.9  Jorge Alcala

98.3  Louie Varland

98.3  Brock Stewart

97.5  Griffin Jax

96.8  Ryan Jensen

96.7  Daniel Duarte

96.7  Ronny Henriquez

96.2  Jeff Brigham 

96.1  HobieHarris

96.1  David Festa

96.0  AustinSchulfer

95.7  Josh Staumont

95.6  Pablo López 

95.6  Cole Sands

95.3  Chris Paddack

95.2  BeauBurrows

 

For me, maybe only a few surprises.  I read reports Canterino was hitting 95, but I didn't find mph detail for that game.  He pitched again more recently and I found he hitting low 90's that game.  (Not saying the reports of him hitting 95 are wrong - just didn't see it on his available log info I have access to see).

Regardless - I take this info as showing we have a lot of good (and healthy) arms to start the year.

 

[stringer bell]

Woods Richardson has been >94 according to reports, but hasn’t hit 95. Still quite an improvement for him

[stringer bell]

Additional comment: it doesn't seem like that long ago that any organization that had more than two or three guys with velo >95 mph was a rarity.

[Kenny Powers]

38 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

Woods Richardson has been >94 according to reports, but hasn’t hit 95. Still quite an improvement for him

Yep.  According to what I found, his best pitch so far was actually hit 94.8 mph.  I used 95 mph as my cut off for the list I posted, but 94.8 mph is certainly eye opening for him based on what we saw last season.  Although, it's fair to point out the obvious which is that all of these guys will settle into an average velocity a few ticks below what we see on the top end.  Still - it's fun (at least for me) to see what they are capable of on the high side.  And velocity can often be an indicator of health - so I'm happy to see so many guys hitting over 95 mph.

[Kenny Powers]

11 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

Additional comment: it doesn't seem like that long ago that any organization that had more than two or three guys with velo >95 mph was a rarity.

That's my feeling as well.  I'm intrigued by some of the high velocity, non-roster arms.  It's amazing we were able to pluck a Brock Stewart out of the scrap heap last year.  Maybe they can strike gold again with someone like Duarte or Staumont.