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BP Daily: Throw hard or go home

By Kevin Goldstein
Baseball Prospectus

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Last week, while I was attending a minor league game between Kane County and Beloit, someone saw me leaning to the right after nearly every pitch to get a radar gun reading (held by a nearby player). "You care about how he's pitching, or how fast he's throwing?" asked a scout sitting near me, sarcastically. "Is there a difference?" I replied, trying to equal his snark. We both laughed, knowing that there was some merit to the question. The next day I was talking to another scout about ve ...

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