Try to put yourself in Ray Black’s shoes for a moment. You’ve spent your whole life being able to throw a baseball incredibly hard. You’ve thrown in game fastballs at 104 miles per hour (once, a gun said you hit 105, but that was one radar gun one time, so you know better than to count it as absolute truth). You’ve struggled through injuries — your last one kept you off the field for a year — but your career has always progressed, and your stuff has always been so good that it’s almost an insult to just call it major league-caliber.
Ray Black has fought through a lot to get here
