Mark Grote

Did it?

Yeah, it was.

On the four-seam fastballs, it was an average of 92 miles an hour.

And on September 25th of 2025, he threw 44 seamers at 90.7.

Okay.

So those are the numbers from Marquee.

And the reason why I had that is because I wanted to take a picture of the graphic.

But here's the issue.

There's a lot of guys who throw gas and the fastball is too straight.

And then they give up a lot of home runs and they help supply the power to do so because they're throwing it so hard.

I don't think that's what Shota Imanaga did.

I am showing you the fallacy of velocity.

And I think in this case, hopefully it is a work in progress and remains as such.

But...

You know, the frustrating part of it is for us, we're not here talking about this on Sunday after Cade Horton's gym and after the Cubs actually doing work and teeing off against Miles Michaelis, which has become a truth in baseball that the Cubs like to face him and he doesn't like facing them either.

Especially at Wrigley.

Yeah, that seems to be a truth.

But one out of three ain't enough.

The math doesn't math.

No, I'm with you on that.