Jaeger Sports Baseball Students "Bring The Heat": Arm Strength & Velocity

Jaeger Sports students Alex Merricks and Matt Parris in "pulldown" phase after their long-toss throwing session. This is where the arm builds arm strength, velocity, and endurance.
Watch as they bring their 350 foot long toss throws into 65 feet or so and light up the radar gun. Every throw was over 90mph!

And, as always, don't try this unless you are on a supervised throwing and arm care program.

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[mattvorwald]

That's great, they can throw hard. Whoop-de-doo. I played in the Twins org with Alex Merricks, and the dude didn't make it out of GCL because he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. He's too focused on throwing hard and couldn't throw strikes. Good to see nothing has changed in 5 years.

[mothahen123]

speed isnt all that matters

u need movement on ur pitches, location, offspeed, and to be smart

[cjdeadly]

The leftys arm will be complete destroyed if he keeps throwing like that lol... and mothanhen is correct besides the fact velocity does matter if you can hit ur location and have aprox... about 10mph off of ur off speed besides curver around 18mph and SMART...#1

[JHAM3232]

The sad truth is velocity matters more than anything. I played with two guys in college, one was dominant all year and finished with a 1.80 ERA, he threw about 84-87 MPH. The other was pretty decent and finished with a 3.50, he threw in the low 90's. Guess which one got drafted.

[TnTPranks]

@mothahen123 that is correct... look at Chapman from the Reds...he throws 105 MPH but gets rocked around cuz he has no location

[BoyAstro93]

As a pitcher, i cant necessarily say speed doesnt matter, but i can say that its not evrythng. A combination of mental toughness, durability, accuracy, variation, AND speed go in to making a great pitcher. Or player in general

[muskie1976]

i played 7 years in the majors with kansa's city, i can tell you that speed and accuracy aren't as important as focus and mental toughness.

[DevonTheriault94]

@Daddioletsyouknow hahaha you're very intelligent, you must have went to college huh?

[DevonTheriault94]

@muskie1976 bahahaha yeah ok buddy.

[xFaLLeN28]

@skew06 to be completely honest i throw harder out of the windup. idk if its because i have really sound mechanics out of the windup or what, but i throw about 2mph faster out of the windup (on average of course). about 90-93 out of the windup and around 88-90 from the outfield (crow hop of course)

[skew06]

lol hes not even throwing from the wind up hes doing a full crow hop so he can throw harder. Give Nolan Ryan a crow hop back in the day and he could probably have hit 110MPH.

[SirJaredTyler]

to anyone --- why is it so slow?