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Dillon Maples was the lone Cubs minor league pitcher to reach 100 mph in 2018

If only he threw more strikes.

Baseball America found that 63 pitchers in Minor League Baseball were clocked at 100 mph or greater on a radar gun in 2018, the lowest total in at least three years. Dillon Maples was the sole Cubs minor leaguer to hit the mystical triple-digits.

Baseball America has compiled this list for each of the past three years and also in 2014. For the first time on their records, the number of pitchers with a 100 mph fastball went down. In 2017, a whopping 81 pitchers hit 100 mph including three Cubs pitchers: Maples, James Norwood and Justin Hancock.