re: “Paul Skenes is the most dominant pitcher I’ve seen in my lifetime of watching baseball”

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becoming the hardest-throwing starting pitching prospect I’ve ever seen

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In person or on TV l, starter vs reliever? Is he 12? I mean, it is all context. He is not the hardest thrower I’ve ever seen. Randy Johnson and Nolan Ryan threw harder. You guys are enamored with Trackman picking up the ball out of the hand versus how they used to measure it. Stop saying he is throwing harder than a freaking 46 y/o Nolan Ryan when his last pitch AT 46 WAS 98 which is closer to 100-101. NINETY EIGHT AFTER STRIKING OUT 5000+ in the bigs.

He is not the hardest throwing pitcher I’ve ever seen. Hell, the guy from Tennessee last year threw harder.

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"Ben Mcdonald was a better player than I was a coach'"

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Skip Bertman

You must be pretty young

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His average fastball velocity is faster than every starting pitcher in the MLB.

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And WHERE DID HE SAY THAT? He said “prospect”. The guy from Tennessee threw harder just last season.

We lost to Air Force his last year here and Skenes pitched and Paul wAs like “that’s some arm talent”

And I think we were all like “stop losing to fricking service schools Paul”

We all had some good points

Hell are you talking about.
Same Tenner guy came in this year he is 91-94.
Skenes has hit 101 quite a few times and has a sustained FB at 98 for 7-8 innings.
That’s HOF shite.
For reference The Rocket Clemons
Settled in at 91-94 during games halfway through his career prolly for sustainability but that’s how serious Skenes is a Flamethrower.

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You are legit the dumbest baseball poster on here of the guys that actually follow LSU baseball from season to season.

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But in this case, he’s right. Mainieri surely has seen all of the HOF pitchers of the last 60 years. Skenes is not better than all of them. Maybe CPM meant in college, but that’s not what he said. Technically, 1988 is correct.