Could javelin throwers make more money in minor league baseball?

There's certainly overlap in the talent required, but I think he underestimates how much specialized technical ability is required to throw javelin or to pitch, and how many other skills it takes to be a viable pitcher at a professional level.

Also, would it be worth it? At AAA level, a minor league player only gets something like $2,000 a month. That may be better than a lot of javelin throwers but playing in the minors is not a way to get rich-

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/03/minor-leaguers-working-poor-lawsuit-mlb-bud-selig

You would also have to like the minor league lifestyle which is probably more work and a lot more travel than throwing the javelin.

What makes him think he can get them to throw a change up, curve, splitter etc...or hit the ball too?

Click bait, note that the link goes to the OP's own site.

Dumb idea, being a successful pitcher also takes control, ball movement, and at least one other pitch.

The article claims that it's all rotation, and that the best throwers are also the best hitters, which is flat out wrong. There are a few right and center fielders who have guns for arms and are great hitters, but as a rule they are pretty unrelated except that athletes good enough to play baseball can probably be taught to throw well enough, and if they can't, they probably won't make it except at DH.

Probably also be able to teach them to swing a golf club 125mph and drive the ball 350 yards. Unfortunately for them, golf and pitching are both a lot more complex than getting a little white ball going fast. There are ton of people who throw 90mph and was out of baseball in a couple of years.

I'm not reading the article. I do know that getting these guys to throw fast is doable, but getting them to do so with accuracy is something else. Not to mention - as someone else mentioned - they have to learn other pitches. Even I can make contact with a 92 mph fastball if that is all I see while I'm at the plate...

Maybe they would be good right fielders having the ability to throw to third or home.

Google Jan Zelezny baseball.

Javelin Pitcher wrote:

Click bait, note that the link goes to the OP's own site.

If I was Martin Bingisser, a swiss hammer coach, why would I post a thread trying to get clicks to my throwing website from letsrun.com in the AM US time?

What if in fact, I am a US based high school track coach who doesn't know much about baseball and thought it would be an interesting discussion.

Terry Bradshaw used to hold the prep national record in the javelin. It was broken by another NFLer - Russ Francis.

Beyond the college level you're wasting your time in track and field events if you aren't one of the top 5 or 6 in the world.

I guess there is some truth to this idea, in that, only the top 5 or 6 in each track event make enough in say a 10 year career to, frugally retire.

But the bottom line is that anyone who finishes their college career in the top 50 in the world, can string off a really amazing/injury free year and be one of those top 5 or 6.

"Beyond the college level you're wasting your time in track and field events if you aren't one of the top 5 or 6 in the world."

Wouldn't you love to see a javelin thrower try to field a bunt or a line drive hit at them ???

xcyclist wrote:

Beyond the college level you're wasting your time in track and field events if you aren't one of the top 5 or 6 in the world.

First, "wasting your time" how? Plenty of professional track and field athletes could make more money doing something else, but that doesn't mean they are "wasting their time." Post college, plenty of people travel, work for non-profits, join the military, teach, and do other things that don't maximize their economic value. These people don't view everything that doesn't maximize their economic value as a waste of time. If you can do it and support yourself, being an athlete who doesn't make a ton of money is perfectly legitimate.

Second, being "top 5 or 6 in the world" might apply to an event like javelin, but plenty of events go deeper than that and allow athletes to support themselves at some level. There are certainly more than 5 or 6 sprinters or marathoners in the world who are making enough money to support themselves.

They actually showed the Russ Francis throw on major network TV one weekend, maybe Wide World of Sports, on the other side of the country. I was more impressed they actually showed some of the meet, which I believe was the Portland Rose Festival.

Wouldn't the javelins be hard on catchers and batters?

an MLB player [more often pitchers, maybe a few other position players] ought to do well at javelin, but I personally dont say a case for the reverse

not sure a top javelin-er could even throw a ball 90 mph with any training