[baseball1974]

I believe you're referring to Sam Burton, Seger. There's been very few pitchers from the 15th that could touch 90 mph, let alone pitch at 90. Looking at the list BS gave I couldn't really think of any other pitchers that could throw 90 mph.
As it always is around this part of the state, and everywhere for that matter, velocity is a bit exaggerated. It's very helpful to be able to throw overpoweringly hard, but it's not everything. I've seen some guys that throw upper 80's and low 90's get their shins knocked off because they couldn't place it and had below average off-speed stuff.

One thing you need to remember about his post is when he said "they touched 90," maybe one or two could consistently get there but the majority of those guys pitched in the 86-88 range. I think if Shepherd wouldn't have been derailed by surgery he could've worked in the low 90's consistently by his senior year. Fyffe could only get close in full motion windup. Put him in the stretch and he fell down to 84-86 range. I haven't heard of anyone getting to that point this year? I know LC had a kid last year that LC claimed was upper 80's, but I never had the opportunity to see him pitch? Was that accurate?