Fastball

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Give me Mets whose best pitch was the fastball, and/or those who might have a better pitch but who's who's fastball would be in consideration among the team's best fastball-throwers, past or present.

[Fman99]

Despite the newness of his career, I put Thor's fastball up there with the best any Met has thrown. I think he takes the Pepsi challenge on that. Gooden and Nolan Ryan come to mind also.

[Fman99]

Benitez threw a mean fastball as well.

[Edgy MD]

Randall K. Myers, as hard as anybody had seen from the left side, at least up until that point in time.

Bobby Parnell, inexplicably, hit 103 at the hight of his powers.

[Edgy MD]

He gets a World Series ring. He stays modest; he don't boast.

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[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Pelfrey was all about the fastball.
Kane Davis? Fastball man.

[seawolf17]

Doesn't Bartolo only throw fastballs now? Not that he'd make a "top" anything list, but still.

Doc/Thor/Benitez/Myers/Parnell are the first ones I think of.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Honorable Mention: Sidd Finch - 168 mph! I mean, c'mon...

[Edgy MD]

Billy Wags.

Still throwing 99 when he got to Flushing, but folks kept fouling it back.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Kind of a sub-category, but when Leiter was someone his split-finger
(cut) fastball was memorable.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Dick Selma's fast ball was thought to be the fastest in the Mets system. (That means it was faster than Ryan's, a teammate of Selma's).

You can write the same sentence above, only substituting John Glass for Dick Selma without sacrificing any accuracy. Glass, of course, was a career minor leaguer who hurt his arm in the Mets minors in the late '60's and was never the same.

[Edgy MD]

This certainly doesn't look like something pleasant is coming.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Bill Denehy also threw unseeable heat until he blew his arm out. Jeez, if it weren't for moderner medicine and, especially, the advent of TJ surgery, this current Mets pitching staff would've been mostly forgotten by now, relegated to the sizable scrap heap of flame-throwing pitchers who blew out their arms, never to be heard from again, just like Glass and Denehy and Musgraves and other Mets hurlers from 45-50 years ago.

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[Edgy MD]

Juan Berenguer was the second Met, after Nolie, to hit 100.

All sorts of badly edited craziness in this video. Jump ahead to about 2:00 and it gets real crazy.

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[ashie62]

Seaver Seaver and Seaver

[Zvon]

Fastball should be easy. I thought early on Gooden had a better fastball than Seaver, but not by much. His riser rose with a tad more zip.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

d'Kong76 wrote: Kind of a sub-category, but when Leiter was someone his split-finger (cut) fastball was memorable.

Just dropped in to make sure he was represented. Carry on.

Also, Sid?

[Edgy MD]

Splitters and cutters deserve their own thread, I think.

Scroogies too, even if there's been only a handful of guys who dealt it.