Major League Baseball notched a record high for fastball speed, with batting averages remaining near all-time lows. Four-seam fastball speed averaged 94.8 miles per hour this past season, up from 91.9 miles per hour when tracking began in 2008. This year, there were a record 5,687 pitches that came in at 100 miles per hour or higher, smashing the record of 3,880 pitches in 2023; in 2008, there were only 214. In a rare “Tungsten Arm” O’Doyle meets Spiders Georg situation, there is a bit of an outlier in Jacob Misiorowski, who threw 1,115 of those 100-mile-per-hour pitches. That said, it’s become astonishingly rare for a pitcher to actually throw a complete game; there were just 21 of them, down from 104 in 2015.
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