John Smoltz
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92 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
John Smoltz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And certainly to your point, I mean, you know, I remember just being out there facing the top six hitters in the lineup, and I wanted to get them out.
And you could do things differently as a pitcher in one inning that you would normally not do in a six-, seven-inning or five-inning game.
So I think that's a lot to do with it.
And, you know, the interesting thing, we didn't even have our biggest power arms pitching last night.
So to get 27 strikeouts, it's impressive.
But we didn't even have the top dogs able to pitch.
No, technology has got it a little bit different.
Coming out of the hand versus crossing home plate, all the different technology and spin rates creating this buzz.
And certainly, I think, and a lot of people think it's a little bit juice, but these arms are doing things that we've never seen before.
And it's the reason why we have so many injuries.
We talked about it.
But 102 is 102.
You can tell by the way the hitter swings whether the ball has life.
or whether it's straight and they can hit 102, but they're definitely seeing more velocity than ever before.
I have a hard time believing somebody threw harder than Nolan Ryan, but, you know, maybe they are.
Well, that's the thing that in the future they've got to do something about.
I mean, pitching and the art of throwing the ball hard is way ahead of hitting, and they're trying to combat it with a launch angle, and they're trying to hit mistakes, and that's really what they're doing.
When they hit home runs, they're hitting mistakes.
Pitchers don't exactly locate today.
I mean, they're throwing it as hard as they can in that big box.
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