It’s good to be a baseball fan in the 21st century. Not only is it easy to keep up with the action-packed offseason (which for the Yankees, pre-Pineda/Kuroda, amounted to re-signing Freddy Garcia, Andruw Jones, and Rick Down) at sites like this one, but thanks to the wonders of modern-day technology, we no longer have to wheel out a motorcycle or a piece of army ordinance equipment every time we want to find out how hard a young pitcher throws. We also spend a lot less time arguing about things that aren’t subjective. In the 20th century, debates about velocity went something like this:
Yellow journalist 1: Who throws harder: Jack Pronto or Jack Celerity? Yellow journalist 2: Pronto. Boy, but does he makes the glove pop. Yellow journalist 1: That may be, but batsmen can’t catch up to Celerity’s speed ball. Yellow journalist 2: Batsmen can’t even see the pill when Pronto pitches. Yellow journalist 1: [Good hitter] said he’d never faced anyone faster than Celerity. Yellow journal...
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