No pitcher in the little league world series can actually throw 99 mph from a big league mound, although when they convert the pitches from little league speed to big league speed they show that they do. Take Danny Almonte for example, every time he pitched they would say that the fastball was like a 99 mph fastball, but now he just throws 90.

what they are doing calculating the speed of a mlb pitch based on the little league dimensions. little league pitchers only throw from 45 feet as opposed to 60.5 feet of the mlb. 74mph from 45 feet is equivalent to 99mph from 60.5 feet. it in no way implies that he throws 99mph. what they want you to see is that if this were a mlb game this is how fast the pitcher would be throwing in comparison. the reaction time is the same for both batters .42 sec

it goes by average arm strength and they find the ratio of a decent little league pitcher and a decent big league pitcher than multiply the lttle league pitcher by the ratio and since in the big leagues no one is really bad they are all really good.

Actually, it has more to do with the fact that the Little League mound isn't a full 60 feet, 6 inches ... so the TV crew converts the speed.

Just to hype the stats. Unnecessary, useless information.

They convert it to show how fast the pitch looks. They're scaling it.

Like when you have a radio controled car, and they tell you it goes 100 MPH to scale. Obviously it doesn't go 100 MPH. What they're saying is that if you shrunk the 'MILES' by the same rate that they've shrunk the car from the size of a real car... it would go 100 'little car miles' an hour.

A ball thrown at 70 MPH from 45 feet gives a hitter the same reaction time as a 99 MPH pitch thrown from 60 feet. That's what they're trying to show you.