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Nobody in baseball history has thrown a baseball like Jacob Misiorowski: a 6’7” starter who let the ball go 7 ½ feet from in front of the rubber, creating an unprecedented perceived velocity of 103 mph on average. His record perceived velocity is 107.8 mph. That’s unheard of.
