Making the Miz: How a Missouri JUCO produced a record-breaking flamethrower

Jacob Misiorowski is a mild-mannered hurler of ferocious force, a gangly stick of dynamite who is exploding past previous notions of what is possible for starting pitchers. Even in an age where 100 mph fastballs are norms rather than outliers, he is doing things baseball has never seen before.In his most recent outing, Misiorowski threw 10 pitches at 103 mph or greater. On three occasions his fastball clocked at 103.6 mph, the highest velocity any starter has reached in the Statcast era. New T-shirts just dropped reading, “Miz Limit: 104.”Advertisement