Sam Dykstra

It wasn't his best outing out here.

at all but the fact that he's getting it up to triple digits like this coming off tommy john which as much as everybody likes to say oh people throw harder off tj it's not a guarantee there are there's still plenty of examples of guys not being the same after such a long layoff the fact that he is and and throwing these bullets like he is is promising going into 2026 i don't

I wonder if he's a first-half option for the Sox.

I'm sure he's going to get plenty of headlines in the spring, that first Grapefruit League outing in which he touches 101 or something, and everybody's going to freak out.

But I would send him to Worcester and extend him out and just make sure he's getting to four, five, six innings before you try to send him to Fenway.

He's certainly up there.

There used to be guys who would throw like 102, 103.

I haven't seen anybody like that.

Emiliano Teodo is here from the Texas Rangers, who a few years ago was touching like 101.

I haven't seen him do that.

I think Perales might be the more consistent triple-digit guy that I've personally seen.

Again, when actually interesting pitching happens, it kind of makes you shoot up a little bit.

There have been interesting other stuff.

It's not all just pure velocity.

Luis de Leon for the Baltimore Orioles throws a sinker 95 to 97 with like 17 plus inches of, of arm side run.

That's been a really good pitch.

But I haven't seen any like Mason Miller.

There's no Mason Miller out here.

Put it that way.

And going viral in all those ways and everybody freaking out.