It takes some real mental gymnastics to think that pitchers throwing faster doesnt mean they are better. A faster fastball is tougher to hit.
And no that does not mean anyone who throws faster than someone else is a better pitcher, but we are talking about the population of major league pitchers so you would have to argue that they have somehow gotten worse at the non-velocity aspects of pitching over time which flies in the face of everything we know about sports.
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