In May Paul Skenes, a then 21-year-old pitcher, debuted on a Major League mound, 10 months after the Pittsburgh Pirates selected him as the first overall pick in the professional baseball draft. Before he threw a pitch in the big leagues, Skenes had been anointed as the sport’s next great hope on account of his electric fastball; he is one of a rising generation of pitchers who routinely throws above 100 miles per hour, a mark that was seen as an upper physiological limit as recently as a decade ago.
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