How the 105-mph Fastball Tests the Limits of the Human Body

How the 105-mph Fastball Tests the Limits of the Human Body →

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The harrowing part (emphasis mine):

“Another cause of the 100-mph ceiling owes to this: the amount of torque needed to throw in excess of the century mark is greater than the amount of force the ulnar collateral ligament (the elbow ligament Strasburg tore) can withstand before giving out, according to tests Fleisig has done on cadavers. When a pitcher cocks his arm, where it is turned back to the point where the palm is facing toward the sky, there’s about 100 Newton-meters of torque on the arm, which subjects the arm to the same amount of stress as if the pitcher had a 60-pound weight hanging from his hand in that position, Fleisig says.”

Somewhere there is a man making corpses throw baseballs. It’s like a nightmare/dream I once had.