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Doogie's FB had me worried last year at 86 mph; he had to be HAIR-fine at that velo.
But at 88-90 he's in great shape. As we all know, fastball attributes include not only (1) velo, but (2) command and (3) movement.
Greg Maddux had a great fastball, though 88 mph. Lot of ML stars have had plus fastballs with poor velo. We watched one in Seattle for ten years. 87 mph, and all sorts of positive runs values off it.
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Wasn't like the O's were hitting BP pitches at people. You watch the tape and you see one disgusting pitcher's pitch after another putting them down 0-1, 1-2.
Question is only to what extent Doogie will execute like this. Question isn't whether it would work, if he could.