The Cincinnati Reds have a very interesting young pitcher in their minor league system. His name is Aroldis Chapman and the kid has one of the best arms ever. While he’s yet to pitch in a MLB game yet; his stuff is clearly ready for the professional batters. There have already been articles written up about him for his 100 mph fast ball. He’s even been known to click the 103 mph mark from time to time. Now a scout in the stands clocked him at 105 mph and so did the radar gun in the stadium. These are two different radar systems and both showed Chapman’s arm throwing a blistering 105 miles per hour!

After seeing MLB not let one of their best pitchers in 2010 compete in the All Star Game and now that same pitcher will need Tommy John surgery; you would hope the Reds baseball team would go ahead and call up the young phenom on the mound. The injured pitcher is Stephen Strasburg and it was a pity he didn’t get to pitch in the 2010 All Star Game. Many felt like he would have many more years to pitch in the A.S. Games; since he is so young and talented. Now that an injury has him sidelined and he will never be a top-tier pitcher in the Majors again. We can now see how the National League manager Charlie Manual of the Philadelphia Phillies made such a huge mistake. He is the one that will have to go to bed at night, knowing he was the NL manager who kept Washington Nationals pitching phenom Stephen Strasburg out of the Mid-Summer Classic.

The Reds need to avoid a Strasburg situation and give Chapman his time to shine in the Majors right now. Life is too short in general and it’s a lot shorter for a MLB pitcher. I hope to see this kid with the 105 mph fastball in a Major League ballpark soon. No MLB batters can consistently catch up to heat like that. Judging by some of his latest stats, the kid isn’t wild either. He knows where that 105 mph baseball is going and he’s pitching it over the plate to hitters. Let’s get a glimpse of him, before his career comes to a sudden end like it did for the 22 year-old Washington Nationals pitcher.