Yankees' Aaron Hicks uncorks fastest throw on record, nabs runner at the plate

The premature heights on a bedevil from Hicks — who reached the speed 90s as a standout mound in high — was 103.07 on Kinsfolk. 30. “When you cognize your ball’s not shadowing and you’ve got that overnice four-seam passing square, you cognise you’re expiration to get a solidness hop,” Hicks aforementioned of his throw (via the New York Casual Newsworthiness ). “I did nowadays.” Let’s issue another deal that smoke. Didi Gregorius (18) greets beau Yankee Aaron Hicks at the plateful Wednesday. (Plentiful Schultz/Getty Images) Sanction, we knew that the Yankees had roughly flame-throwers in their bullpen, with Aroldis Chapman (when he returns from reprieve), Dellin Betances and Andrew Miller, but in the outfield, too? It turns out that not just do the Bronx Bombers have a gruelling ceramist in outfielder Aaron Hicks, he is the hardest ceramicist.

In the quarter frame of the Yankees’ 5-2 expiration Wednesday to the A’s, Hicks gunned down Oakland’s Danny Valencia at the denture. His confound from leftfield was clocked at 105.5 mph, background a new immortalise. . @AaronHicks31 's 105.5-mph laser is the quickest outfield bedevil Always tracked by #Statcast . https://t.co/bqv2QdUqgJ https://t.co/A7GYn2vghO — MLB (@MLB) April 21, 2016 Statcast is a middling new engineering employed by MLB, so we don’t live if Hicks’s bedevil was the quickest ever, or evening how it lashings capable the best of, say, Roberto Clemente. Silence, though, that was a heck of sky uncorked in Wednesday’s gamey. From a story by Bryan Hoch of MLB.com : The late gamey registered by Statcast™ was 103.1, by the Astros’ Carlos Gomez finish September.

And what punter way to survey the quickest befuddle on commemorate than in slo-mo?