Who are the hardest throwers in the Mets minor league system?

The heater. Gas. Cheddar. The fastball is the bread-and-butter of a pitcher. In the last decade, the average fastball velocity has risen by roughly two miles per hour, and since the turn of the new millennium, it has risen almost five. Increasingly, teams are placing more of an emphasis on velocity.

Due to a number of factors- injuries, trades, retirements, inaccurate reports, or a concentrated effort to reign in velocity in exchange for some additional modicum of control- the Mets system currently has few pitchers capable of throwing in the upper-90s.

Junior Santos

Steve Sypa

Junior Santos was born in Santiago, Dominican Republic, a city of roughly 1.