Baseball has been enamored with the speed for some time now. Since first being introduced in the 1960s, the radar gun has been a fixture of Major League Baseball. One of the most cited measurements of a pitcher is how hard (speed) a guy throws, and the St. Louis Cardinals have taken this to heart.
St. Louis Cardinals reliever Jordan Hicks has been lighting up radar guns since he first arrived on the scene. Taken in 2015 Amateur Draft, Hick spent two seasons in the Cardinals minor league systems turning heads and caulking up whiffs.