Thank you for that comment!

What has been up with his down season this year anyways?

@@meme6335 without any inside knowledge, i would have to guess it has to do with him still not being quite 100% re: his knee Whether it be physical or mental, or some combo thereof i couldnt say. but its to be expected if you look at other players' first (full) year back after the same surgery. i guess its the kind of thing where its a combo of mentally not fully trusting it for fear that you damage it again and have to go back through the rigors of rehabbing it again (as a best case scenario) plus it physically not being a linear healing process. ie some days it feels great, good as new, but then a couple days later could feel tight or painful or whatever. im not worried about his long term outook tbh. i think hes finally approaching or maybe over the hump mentally, right as theyre approaching the playoffs. i think after a full offseason rest, hes going to come back next year and be (as close to) the Ronald Acuña Jr hes been from his first game in the bigs to the day he got injured as we could hope.

It's almost like a curse with great players. Guys like Mantle, Griffey, Trout, Stanton, Judge, Ohtani, etc. It really does feel like they're so powerful and talented, that the physics and mechanics of the human body can't keep up with it. I mean seriously, when Tommy John is such a common issue when Tommy John is literally throwing so hard that your ligaments rip, it gives an idea just how insane the game of baseball is.

Up there with the Jose Guillen throw.

yeah that never went any higher than 10 feet off the ground wtf

@@fsub9834 That's physically impossible, the ball can't resist gravity over a distance of 300 feet. If you pause between 0:43-0:44 you can see the ball peaked at around the time it reached the infield at a height of at least 35 feet.

@@wojak91 okay sorry mr physics for being hyped over a crazy throw, a little exaggeration was used in my statement to acknowledge how good of a throw it was so slow down their freight train

@@fsub9834 don't worry I love u man

@@wojak91 I'm not saying you aren't familiar with baseball, you may very well be...but I'm just going to point out that when you throw a ball from 4 steps off of the warning track to home plate and hit your catcher on the glove side of his chest at 105.8mph, that is as flat as it's going to get. That ball, by baseball standards with respect to the longer outfield throws, was extremely flat. If sports media and MLB didn't hate the Braves so much people would have seen it replayed on TV and showing up on all sorts of sports media platforms. Because he didn't throw out Stot, PHI's short stop and one of the top 1-3 fastest players in the Phillies lineup that night, it won't go down as the best outfield throw all time - because he didn't get the outfield assist. As someone who grew up playing baseball and played to a relatively high level and have seen pretty much all of the great throws over the decades, I firmly believe there has never been a better throw than this one from Acuna Jr. Sure, people can talk about throws like the iconic Ichiro throw to third where the runner was out, but I'd love for anybody to reply with a link to a throw with anything close to this velocity, anything close to how low to the ground this ball stayed and still makes it to the base in the air, and anything close to the accuracy of the throw. To put it in perspective, I'd be willing to bet Acuna Jr's throw on that play would've been an out and an outfield assist at a clip of something like successfully throwing out at least 90-95% of MLB base runners if they had been the runner instead of Stot. Honestly it's a good, and surprising, thing that Stot didn't take one step of that tag from third base lightly like plenty of players would have on a ball that deep.... or he would've gotten smoked.

Yeah, only reason he was safe loo

Thanks for the comment. I just checked and there doesn't seem to be a good highlight reel of his throws so I might consider making a video like that. It just takes a lot of time to search through documentaries and obscure videos for rare footage. If there are any throws you would like me to include, please feel free to drop a link in the comments!

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iMmpeJmhm7O9ZJ8.htmlsi=ilPaJr5Kvfp1vuGp

3:33

How deep he was on the catch, it really wasn't much of a chance to get him at home, hence the quick catch and release

I mean, the run still scored.

Haha, no hate taken & thanks for checking out the video. The main reason why I slowed the footage down & clipped them to the end of this video is because I used to be a pitcher before I blew out my shoulder & so I find really powerful throws to be a beautiful & picturesque art form. I just wanted to place some emphasis on the throwing mechanics, although it beats me why I repeated it in 3 different speeds... Lol, I can't remember why I chose to do 3 speeds

lmao

I wish I had a better answer for you because unfortunately it was only mentioned during the broadcast. That's why I showed the tweet at the start of the video because after I heard this mentioned o tv, I had to make sure it wasn't my imagination and that other people also heard what I did. It hasn't officially been recognized yet for some reason though.

@@spcooper94 they were probably off though because statcast says Acunas hardest throw this year is 101.5 which is still crazy

Probably distance from the location of the throw to the plate and amount of time it took to get there will give you its average speed start to finish and from there you can calculate exit velocity and how much it slowed down from wind resistence. Someone smarter than me could probably tell you the actual formula but that will give you a rough idea.

@@drummerreviewss377 They count only successful outfield assists from my knowledge so this throw wouldn’t count.

The Hawkeye system isn't wrong. Just accept it.

@@robnunurbiznezz7618 ball was on a line...not much height

@@robnunurbiznezz7618 ofc it had air under it. U think gravity doesn't exist? Acuna has hit 103 this year against the Marlins, and has hit 100 multiple times in his career. Only casual fans would deny Statcast bc they are ignorant af

@@OregonG20 Hawkeye is wrong*

@@robnunurbiznezz7618 you realize objects don't travel at average velocities right? Has somethingto do with the little thing called gravity we have to deal with. The top speed (which was probably near release) was where they tracked the 106mph then it looses velocity.

hes 7 feet tall

Judge is also sized like a tight end

Stott is kinda fast, it's not like he was trying to throw out a catcher or first baseman

Bro shush stop hating you don’t know that because you probably never seen him play

@@SimplyAJ24 Haha, I posted a video of Clemente throwing on my channel. You can watch it and see it for yourself

@@spcooper94 good for you but idrc acuna has a arm. and yes clemente has the best arm

stop hating

@@Gen5toter Not hating at all. Was it a nice throw? Sure. Did it result in an out? No. In the box score it won't amount to a thing. Much like a 450 ft foul ball. Sure, great contact and impressive power but in the end it's only a long strike.

@@davidhackett7106 Actually you are. You are comparing apples to oranges. The main point here is that it is the hardest throw ever recorded from the outfield. You know how many people have hit a ball over 450 feet? Runner was safe only because of the depth of Acuna where he made the catch. Plus add the fact that Stott is one of the fastest runners on the Phillies. So to make it that close from where Ronald caught the ball is pretty crazy safe or not.

@vance836 Nope. Not hating. I acknowledged what a good play it was even though the runner was still safe.