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The Toronto Blue Jays star held a major league record for ball speed until this week, but Pittsburgh Pirates rookie sensation Oneil Cruz is here to break it. Bolavip tells you the details.
Among the teams facing a reconstruction process, the franchise that seems close to turning the corner and competing for the World Series in Major League Baseball (MLB) they are the five times champions, Pittsburgh Pirates.
The team led by Derek Shelton has been an irregular group during the 2022 campaign, but with the arrival of some of its young promises to the major leagues, everything seems to indicate that talent will end up prevailing in the City of Steel.
Among them is their best prospect, Oneil Cruzwho was to be compared to Aaron Judgealso now has broken a record for Vladímir Guerrero Jr., a Dominican baseball player for the Toronto Blue Jays that he has dominated since his arrival in the MLB.
Oneil Cruz breaks Vladimir Guerrero Jr’s record
There are not many times that a talent like Vladímir Guerrero Jr. breaks records in Major League Baseball (MLB), but what he has done Oneil Cruz in his first season with the Pittsburgh Pirates is enough to get him done..
The Dominican, in the victory that allowed him to sweep the series for his team against Milwaukee Brewers, had a single that went 118.8 miles per hour at the time of the hit. According to MLB.com’s Justin de los Santos, it’s the fastest ball off the bat by a rookie since Guerrero Jr. hit him at 118.7 miles per hour in August 2019.
