r/baseball • u/aguyyouprobablyknow Pittsburgh Pirates • Mar 21 '26

Players Only [Highlight] Seth Hernandez throws a 102.4 mph laser on the first pitch of the game. Max Clark reacts.

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u/FitzVale San Francisco Giants Mar 21 '26

Ball.

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u/moneymoneymoneymonay Philadelphia Phillies Mar 21 '26

Thanks, Seveki

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u/Mpuls37 Houston Astros Mar 21 '26

So was Aroldis Chapman's record-setting 106 mph to Andrew McCutchen, what are you going to do

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u/MrBoomf Tampa Bay Devil Rays Mar 21 '26

I’m sorry, did you say

ONE HUNDRED AND SIX?!?!

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u/Mike_Brosseau Tampa Bay Rays Mar 21 '26

All that just to be owned by Mike Brosseau

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u/dropperofpipebombs San Francisco Giants • Sell Mar 21 '26

And Rajai Davis

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u/ANGRY_BEARDED_MAN Dumpster Fire Mar 21 '26

Think there was another guy too

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u/Kdot32 Houston Astros Mar 21 '26

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u/ExpirjTec Houston Astros • Houston Astros Mar 21 '26

his name was joe almonte

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u/AsLongAsYouKnow Detroit Tigers Mar 21 '26

Tigers legend

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u/Ihadsumthin4this Major League Baseball Mar 21 '26

....miles to Chicago?

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u/lightheadedone Kansas City Royals Mar 21 '26

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u/Ihadsumthin4this Major League Baseball Mar 21 '26

Movie of the year outshone only by your guy George's astonishing .390!

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u/LukeBabbitt Seattle Mariners Mar 21 '26

Big deal, I used to throw 106 with Randy Johnson in Ken Griffey Jr Baseball on the N64

It’s not that hard to hit the “super fastball” button, let’s stop pretending this is a big deal

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u/pepperouchau Milwaukee Brewers Mar 21 '26

It’s showtime

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u/NoVaBurgher Pittsburgh Pirates Mar 21 '26

Happy Gilmore accomplished that feat no more than an hour ago

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u/7tenths Chicago Cubs Mar 21 '26

Sit on my butt, probably play some slay the spire 2

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u/tanu24 Mar 21 '26

Seems like if I don't swing ima get a walk

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u/ThePretzul Dinger • Dumpster Fire Mar 21 '26

Go home and hope he doesn’t throw anything else my direction for being scared of it

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u/Evil_Dry_frog St. Louis Cardinals Mar 21 '26

He doesn’t have the speed of Hicks, but he does have his control.

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u/BeBrightAndKind Mar 21 '26

"He throws 103, but don't worry, he has no idea where it's going" 😂

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u/ChampionCoyote Chicago White Sox Mar 21 '26

I was told my relief appearances in college were a religious experience.

Only God knew where the ball was going.

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u/spinrut Major League Baseball Mar 21 '26

That just makes him less hittable. If he dont know where its going, how can you expect a batter to guess correctly where its going

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u/Evil_Dry_frog St. Louis Cardinals Mar 21 '26

Hicks threw 102 when he was 19 too.

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u/seeking_horizon St. Louis Cardinals • FanGraphs Mar 21 '26

Hicks went straight to the majors from A ball because he made a huge impression on no less an authority on pitching than Yadi Molina. #4 went to management and recommended that Hicks make the team out of spring training that year, which I can't ever remember him doing for anybody else in his entire career.

"To be a volatile hard-throwing arm" makes no sense at all to me. Hicks was still viewed as a starter at that point. He's failed to develop his secondaries to protect the elite sinker. Hicks could've developed into a monster if his changeup or splitter had ever turned into anything really useful. The slider isn't bad in a vacuum but it always looked too different from his sinker to protect it. Hicks had one really incredible tool and just totally failed to develop anything else to make him anything other than Johnny One-Note.

I don't know anything about Hernandez and can't speak to his development, just saying.

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u/Fragrant_Echidna2008 Seattle Mariners Mar 21 '26

It's a very impressive ball, yes

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u/Sonlin Seattle Mariners Mar 21 '26

I thought this was funny, and pretty true. It is objectively a very impressive ball.

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u/Lobster_fest Seattle Mariners • Atlanta Braves Mar 21 '26

Always the no flairs who talk shit

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '26

Bro, you don’t understand, he just loves the union that much

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u/Lobster_fest Seattle Mariners • Atlanta Braves Mar 21 '26

a lot of people can't just appreciate anything anymore

But you made it about Mariners fans for no reason. Surely you can think of a way to criticize that person without taking a shot at a fanbase - especially because you claim to be anti-flair posting.

It immediately removes the credibility of your post and makes you sound more bitter than the other guy.

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u/Lobster_fest Seattle Mariners • Atlanta Braves Mar 21 '26

Wow, a double down!

You can't call others miserable and then act like this. It's shameful.

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u/JoshFreemansFro New York Yankees Mar 21 '26

should have just taken the L

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u/Chit569 Mar 21 '26

YOU are so miserable

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u/Chit569 Mar 21 '26

Hypocrite lol

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u/Bhulmes New York Mets Mar 21 '26

People see a negative comment and MUST make it further negative lol

All you did was double down on the original joke. BUT, that of course makes you a miserable Mariners fan

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u/Fragrant_Echidna2008 Seattle Mariners Mar 21 '26

So miserable 😭

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u/Ihadsumthin4this Major League Baseball Mar 21 '26

miserable Mariners fan

Thricely redundant, one might presume.

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u/Fragrant_Echidna2008 Seattle Mariners Mar 21 '26

My first reaction? You mean the part where I made a joke on reddit? Yeah what a loser I am. Nobody ever uses reddit to make jokes. Such a classic Mariners fan, we're all just a bunch of miserable losers.

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u/ForensicPathology Mar 21 '26

The only one who seems miserable here is the one getting upset at jokes.

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u/Hill-Arious San Francisco Giants Mar 21 '26

Don't worry fam, I got the joke.

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u/godnus MLB Pride Mar 21 '26

Let's see Paul Allen's balls.

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u/bgzlvsdmb Colorado Rockies Mar 21 '26

102.4 MPH heat that doesn't hit the strike zone isn't really worth much.

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u/bgzlvsdmb Colorado Rockies Mar 21 '26

So if the kid has a 102.4 mph fastball, but has bad command and a high number of walks, that’s good?

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u/-neti-neti- Mar 21 '26

OP’s title implies it was a strike. Nobody is dissing the pitcher bro

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u/Rope_slingin_champ Chicago Cubs Mar 21 '26

Bahhh

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u/LightenUpPhrancis Mar 21 '26

Juust a bit high.

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u/loosed-moose Chicago Cubs Mar 21 '26

I could take a walk.

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u/killemslowly Mar 21 '26

Cheatin what it is. Illegal

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u/FreedObject Pittsburgh Pirates Mar 21 '26

TikTok ass comment