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Hitting a baseball is hard.
Hitting a baseball thrown by an MLB pitcher should be darn-near impossible.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementYet somehow, every year, plenty of guys prove capable of hitting the baseball, occasionally a long way.
It's one of the most impressive athletic feats there is.
This video of Trey Yesavage helps prove that point.
It's taken by MLB.com's Keegan Matheson, and it gives about as good a view of possible of what it might be like to stand in a major league batter's box and try to hit Yesavage.
Good luck:
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Yesavage does have filthy stuff. He throws super hard, and he's thought to have one of the best splitters in baseball.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThese days, almost every pitcher throws with high velocity. Most have honed their offspeed pitches with various pitching labs or high-speed cameras to figure out the best way to throw them. There are so many ways to get better as a pitcher.
Yesavage will have to keep getting better, too. He took the league by storm late last season and into the playoffs, but he hasn't had a large MLB sample size yet.
It's a good thing we don't have to hit him, because that wouldn't go well.
The Blue Jays are hoping it's a tough task for their opponents, too.
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