The name Ben Joyce should sound familiar if you’re a deep baseball fan.
If not? Let’s recap: We’ve written a bunch about the former Tennessee pitcher who dialed it up to 104 MPH in college … and also 105.5 MPH while he was a Vol.
If you were wondering what happened to him: He was drafted by the Los Angeles Angels in the third round of the 2022 MLB Draft, which is pretty wild. What’s wilder? He spent one full season in Double-A, then threw 15.2 innings this year before getting called up. He did total 44 Ks in 28.2 innings, which made this call easy.
And when he had his debut on Monday? PURE FIRE:
Ben Joyce's sinkers from his first MLB inning:
102 100 102 101 100 102 102 102 101 101 102
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/fCSnewplc1— Codify (@CodifyBaseball) May 30, 2023
Ben Joyce's first major league strikeout is clocked at 102mph 😳🔥 pic.twitter.com/Dg54uFj2uS
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) May 30, 2023
List of pitchers who have thrown a pitch 102+ mph with at least 15 inches of arm-side movement this season:
Jordan Hicks
Gregory Santos
Ben Joyce https://t.co/IxITxM051u— Mathew Brownstein (@MBrownstein89) May 30, 2023
Can’t wait for more of this.
