Powerful Pitches by Sean Gregory

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 6, No. 23
Date: April 29, 2016
Article: Powerful Pitches
Author:  Sean Gregory
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1. Yes, pitchers are getting closer to throwing 100 miles per hour pitches.
2. 11 pitchers threw and average of 95 mph balls in 2005.
3. 54 pitchers threw and average of 95 mph balls in 2015.
4. You had to pitch 40 innings to be considered in this data.
5. 43 more pitchers threw 95 mph balls in 2015 compared to 2005.
6. Answers will vary
7. 24 pitchers reached 100 mph last season.
8. Jeff Passan said, "A hundred miles per hour is no longer a mythical number."
9. Pitchers face 1 or 2 batters in a game.
10. Strikeouts per game hit an all-time in MLB in 2015.
11. Home Runs jumped in 2015 from 2014.
12. Pitchers that throw harder are experiencing getting hurt.
13. The sport has seen on the rise besides fastballs are surgeries on pitchers' elbows.
14. What's keeping young pitchers from getting hurt is advance training and medicine.