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Posted By: prewarsports

Doesn't seem to make sense to me. Some of the biggest guys I know can't throw a thing, and it is always the tall lanky guys with little muscle who can toss it in there over 90 MPH. I played baseball through the college level as a middle infielder and lifted weights in targeted areas to try and increase my throwing arm and basically it did nothing. I can see a guy with a 90 MPH fastball being able to add perhaps 1-2 MPH with pure strength but it is nothing that mechanics can not acheive better and faster. I would be willing to bet anything I own that it can not make but a very slight difference in speed, but perhaps in durability with greater leg strength it do a little bit. It's not like we are talking about a career .290 hitter with an average of 35 home runs a season doubling all his numbers overnight. Oh wait, Barry Bonds didn't use steroids, my bad!