Through 11 starts for the Milwaukee Brewers, Jacob Misiorowski has thrown 311 pitches at 100 miles per hour or faster — more than every other MLB starter combined.
The rest of MLB’s starters have combined for 170 such pitches through games played on May 25.
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Pittsburgh’s Bubba Chandler leads the way behind Misiorowski with 52 thrown, while Miami’s Eury Perez has tossed 23. Just behind him with 22 is Cam Schlittler, then Chase Burns with 21 and Shohei Ohtani 20.
It’s not just raw numbers that are breaking the speed gun. It’s also Misiorowski’s rate.
He’s thrown 996 pitches this season across his 11 starts. That translates to hitting 100 miles per hour or more on 31.2 percent of his pitches. During his rookie season last year, his rate was 16.7 percent.
Cincinnati’s Hunter Greene, who led starting pitchers in 2025 with 296 hurls above 100 miles per hour, broke 100 at a 16.9 percent frequency last season. Greene, currently out with an injury, would project to roughly 165 triple-digit pitches through the Reds’ first 53 games if he had maintained that rate under a healthy five-man-rotation workload.
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In 2022, Greene threw 337 pitches that broke 100 miles an hour, which set the single season record for 100-plus mile per hour pitches thrown by a starter in the Statcast era (2015 or later). If Misiorowski continues at his current pace, he could potentially reach Greene’s record in his next start.
The numbers also highlight the hard-throwing era baseball finds itself in. In 2017, MLB starters combined for 66 pitches at 100 miles per hour or faster for the entire season. This year, even excluding Misiorowski, starters already have 170 — with roughly two-thirds of the season still to play.
Methodology note: 100-plus mile per hour pitch data comes from the Baseball Savant / Statcast API. Starting pitchers were identified as the first pitcher used by each team in a game. Data is current as of 1 p.m. ET, May 26.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Jacob Misiorowski throws 100 mph more than anyone — and it isn’t close
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