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Call the next 100 mph fastball — draft your deck free
Mason Miller leads MLB in fastball velocity in 2026 at 101.2 mph. The top three are Mason Miller, Edgardo Henriquez, Jhoan Duran, based on Statcast data refreshed nightly from Baseball Savant.
Average fastball velocity is the mean speed of a pitcher's four-seam or sinker — whichever they throw most — across all outings. Statcast captures each pitch off the TrackMan/Hawk-Eye radar in every MLB park, so the numbers are precise to a tenth of a mph. Elite relievers routinely sit 98+ mph; starters maintaining 96+ over a full outing are the rarest breed in the game.
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Fastball velocity is the single strongest predictor of strikeout rate at the pitcher level, and velocity gains year-over-year almost always translate to performance gains. This leaderboard surfaces the arms that overwhelm hitters with pure stuff — the bullpen weapons and front-line starters whose margin for error is widest.
Data source: MLB Statcast via Baseball Savant, refreshed nightly into the Legends Deck card database. Minimum sample-size filters are applied so small-sample outliers don't distort the top of the ranking.