Defensive Decisions + Around the Majors with Jayson Stark
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All right, welcome back to Blair and Barker on the Sportsnet Radio Network and Sportsnet. Kevin Barker has been dispatched to help rescue the TV folks today. So you've got me for the last hour of the show.
What insights did Jayson Stark share about Jacob Misiorowski's pitching?
And a reminder that first pitch tonight is 7.07. The Astros are in town to take on the Blue Jays tomorrow's game. A 4-0-7 first pitch. The Jays making the schedule change, or I should say the change in the start time because of the World Cup match that will be in Toronto. So keep that in mind. 4-0-7 tomorrow. Adjust your, one, travel schedule accordingly if you're going to the game, and two, viewing schedule accordingly if you're watching it or listening schedule if you're listening to it on the radio. I think I covered just about everything there. Let's bring in Jason Stark of The Athletic. We can't bring in Jason Stark of The Athletic. Oh, okay. Well, we'll wait for a while until we can get Jason Stark.
Lots of talk to Jason. But he did a terrific piece, an interview with Nolan Ryan last week. And... Interesting getting Nolan's thoughts on Jacob Mizorowski in particular. And we've spent a lot of time talking about Jacob Mizorowski in 104 miles an hour. Just, you know, the heights, the new heights he seems to be reaching in terms of velocity, in terms of sustained velocity. I mean, it's one thing to flirt with. Those numbers. It's another thing to stay at those numbers. It's another thing to throw a 103-mile-an-hour pitch to strike somebody out in the ninth inning of a game. I mean, the things that Jacob Mizorowski is doing are – I mean, even in a sport that's sort of become used to everything that Shohei Ohtani's done, what Jacob Mizorowski has been able to do is even more remarkable.
And it really has. As someone who remembers, who watched Nolan Ryan, I've often wondered, you know... The technology that we have now, the technology that was there when Nolan Ryan was lighting up the radar gun, I've often wondered if we wouldn't get more accurate readings with Nolan Ryan. I've often wondered how fast Nolan Ryan actually threw. What would be his top, top, top velo? It would be fascinating. It'd be fascinating to see that. Jason's article in 1974. Oh, let's bring Jason in. Jason Stark of The Athletic joining us. Jason, I was just talking about, we've got a lot to get there. I was just talking about your article in Nolan Ryan. And I was saying that part of me really thinks that if we had the technology then that we have now, I don't know if Nolan Ryan would be hitting 103 and 104.
But... I mean, wouldn't you like to know? Like, I know that the Angels, I'm reading your article in 74, they had some engineers from Rockwell International aim a primitive radar gun, and it was 100.8 miles an hour. Nolan Ryan must have thrown 103 the odd time, don't you think?
I honestly have no way of knowing. But it's fun to think of that, isn't it? Look, the one thing that we definitely know is that Nolan Ryan threw so much harder than everybody else. You know, I talked to Mike Petriello about this a little bit because he's done so much work on how we measure velocity now. And he said, listen... Let's say no one was legitimately throwing 100 then. The average fastball of everybody else was 88. Yeah. So it'd be the equivalent of throwing like 107 now. So it... We know that he threw harder than everybody else. We know he could throw a fastball past anybody he needed to any time that he wanted to. But would I like to know what he was really throwing? I would love to know. You know who said he didn't care at all?
Nolan. Didn't care. Because his theory is it's impossible to really know, so why waste energy on it? That's our job, man. Yeah, exactly. And boy, that sounds like Nolan, doesn't it? Oh, he was so Nolan. He really was. There were a couple times where he would say something that would make me laugh out loud, and he wouldn't even change tone. He was talking about how the hitters nowadays, they don't even care if they strike out. And he said, these guys strike out three times and then hit a home run and act like they did something special.
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