aroldis chapman holds the record for the fastest pitch in baseball.
aroldis chapman holds the record for the fastest pitch in baseball.
who holds the record for the fastest pitch in baseball?
aroldis chapman
aroldis chapman set the record for fastest pitch recorded by statcast at , tying his own record from 2010 for the fastest recorded pitch in mlb history. through august 2015, chapman had registered the 101 fastest pitches thrown in mlb, leading statcast to introduce a filter to remove chapman from custom leaderboards. in 2016, mauricio cabrera, a rookie, reached , the fastest pitch thrown by someone other than chapman.
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the hokkaido native was 5-5 with a 3.89 era in 2003, whiffing 83 in 74 innings and being named an all-star again. he pitched in 66 games, leading the cl. when takatsu left for the chicago white sox, the 24-year-old was handed the swallows' closer job. igarashi went 5-3 with 37 saves and a 2.66 era in 2004. he held opponents to a .210 average and struck out 86 in 74 1/3 ip. he led the cl in both saves and appearances (66). he made the all-star team for the fourth time. he won the fireman of the year award, which takatsu had taken three times. along with hirotoshi ishii, he was known as one of the "rocket boys", noted for their fastballs in the mid-90s. on june 3, he threw a 158 km/h (98 mph) fastball, tying the nippon professional baseball (npb) record for fastest pitch ever (held by hideki irabu and kazuo yamaguchi); igarashi would hit that figure several more times in his career. the record didn't even last a year as marc kroon broke it in may 2005. he still holds the record for the fastest pitch in an all-star game, at 157 km/h.
ryota igarashi