Let's go through every way Jacob Misiorowski's fastball is a monsterOK, we need to throw out some qualifiers here. Misiorowski is the apex predator of pitch velocity, but that's not the only reason we're saying his fastball is better than any other in history. In that shutout against the Phillies, Misiorowski hit 103.4 mph on his first pitch and 103.1 mph on his final pitch. We are merely saying that, right now, Misiorowski is throwing his fastball at a level we've never before seen in baseball. Throwing a 103 mph fastball requires a kinetic chain so violent and complicated that this level could very well be fleeting.