Hitting is hard.
That’s always been true, but in modern baseball, it might as well be written in all-caps with an exclamation point at the end of it. Just watch Milwaukee Brewers rookie Jacob Misiorowski throw a few pitches.
There has never been a more insanely talented era of pitchers in the history of the game.
Misiorowski has made two MLB starts, won both of them, and allowed just one hit total.
There are many reasons for this, but one is his slider, which is 96 miles per hour at its peak.
Jacob Misiorowski is throwing 96 MPH sliders at 2500+ RPM with nearly 8 feet of extension
let us never ever ask “is it harder to hit now” ever again pic.twitter.com/BHJBmEwsMQ
— Mike Petriello (@mike_petriello) June 21, 2025
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Yeah, that one friend you have who says he could get a hit in the major leagues, show him this clip.
If we could put Misiorowski in a time machine and send him back to 1925, they’d think he was a wizard sent from afar to destroy the game they loved.
Truly, there’s never been a pitch like that.
Except, every night pitchers come trotting in from the bullpen with velocity and spin rates that would’ve been tops in baseball 25 years ago and are now almost run-of-the-mill.
Every hitter has to face a dominant pitcher, stuff-wise, nearly every at bat. It’s hard to relax when every new arm throws 98 with a sharp breaking ball.
Misiorowski just happens to throw his breaking ball almost that hard, and then he just hangs out at 101 and 102 mph on the heater.
Yeah, hitting is brutally hard.
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