The Science Of Hitting A Major League Fastball
Hitters only have 125 milliseconds to gauge the average Major League fastball – less than the blink of an eye. Which begs the question: how is it humanly possible?
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I keep strikin out in tee ball… guess i need more roids.
I am also a pro………..
at missing a baseball
great! awesome! kool! baseball is still not a sport. it’s a cute lil game for children, and manchilds not physically fit and tough enough to compete in real sports. it’s great for those who haven’t developed past playing throwing/ catching games.
Any one who says baseball in not the hardest sport is gay
I feel like this is a sloght remake of the documentry "fastball"
I hate "science" things that completely have no clue what science actually is.
Science is not just measuring and statistics.
im 14 and i have gone in 85mph fastball machine. geez, idk how they hit 95 😳😳
went crazy when i made contact lol
Add on top of all that spin which if strong enough can make the ball have vertical or godforbid horizontal movement like that witchcraft Chris Sale throws
God I love this game.
Is it just me or did I hear "Yogi Bear said.." 😂😂😂
He didn’t even mention breaking balls
And the ones that do it three out of 10 times in a year get those $300 million contracts
Bro my friends said baseball is easy and not a real sport so I sent them this
Its been proven that hitting a fast ball is the MOST difficult thing to do in a professional sport. Credits due to these beastly men, not an easy task….. Yes, i said MEN. No women could ever do this .
I somehow understood every second of the timing but also don’t understand how it’s possible. Damn I love that sport
My friend joked about how baseball is a sissy’s game and he said its just glorified golf. I brought him to my local batting cage that shoots 90mph fastballs. He barely foul tipped 2 out of over 50 pitches. He no longer roasts baseball.
The real question is how to hit a cutter from Mariano Rivera
Actually you are supposed to be late on outside pitches and early on inside pitches
TIP: put a high powered, light weight magnet in the baseball ⚾🤓 steel bat
and in video games (for honor) specifically we have to deal with 300/500 ms lights and then the input delays to that the signal tk out brains and evrythign i think i’m on par with a baseball player … maybe😎
i use to be a pitcher…my batting average was 0.083 for 2 seasons…i was lucky to make contact for foul balls
Go kick a field goal, then we’ll talk
Add swing and a hard leather comming at you at even greater speeds that’s cricket
Hitting s baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports
Bs I hit the ball all the time when I play with my 4 year old
Seeing all the players making it look easy
Wouldn’t that mean that hitting a softball is harder? Because they’re closer to the batter
Thanks for the amazing content !!!
And people say baseball is easy 😂
Hitting is all rhythm it starts in batting practice
Griffey said Nolan Ryan threw so fast the ball looked like a pill 😂
The only comeback people have is “liar” and “ baseball still is easy”
Sandlot kids is a great film. FACT
I been playing baseball forever…we have playing against young strong softball teams who think they can just make the transition and naw…they cant hit the ball, is funny to see them trying to slap the ball by the time they take the stride the ball is already in the catchers glove
20/20 vision is not even perfect vision and not enough to play in the major.😳
I’m an athlete. I still play competitive league hockey, basketball and I’m an avid golfer. I grew up playing ball and can unequivocally tell you through personal experience that Baseball takes the most athletic ability. From fielding, pitching and hitting… anyone who says baseball players aren’t athletes, are complete knuckleheads who think that just because they couldn’t make contact at a county fair pitching maching throwing 68MPH.
Who edited this?
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It works like that in the field too. It’s like you know where the ball is gonna be hit just by the stance of the batter. And if he swimgs and misses on a pitch thats more information about where the ball is going if he connects.
I don’t even wanna be near a ball going that fast. Let alone hit the thing
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20/12 vision?
Edgar Martinez hold my walking stick
I am from the UK and remember thinking as a kid Baseball would be easy as I was pretty good at Cricket and Rounders. When I went to work at a Summer Camp when I was 19, I had to play in a game and was pretty cocky telling everyone I was going to hit multiple home runs as I was good at cricket.
Little did I know but the boy pitching to me was a rated player at his high school. As soon as the first ball went past me, I was like, wtf is this. In the end I was able to just about get the ball in play but was run out easily. E
Anyway, ever since that day, when someone says to me what is the most difficult thing to do consistently in sport, I say it’s hit a home run.
The MLB batting average hovers around 0.250. Which basically means with our knowledge of the science and variations of pitcher delivery that striking the ball contains a lot of luck, even for the best in the game. If someone gave you odds of 25% on something it would be a bad bet. 25% chance of connecting with the ball at all.
As a non baseball player it makes sense to me (from an offensive perspective) to focus on athleticism and explosive sprint speed to reduce the time it takes for players to run between bases. Whether that’s from the plate or stealing. You’re gonna have to run 25% of the time so you want to increase your likely hood of getting on first when you do. It feels like a more predictable means of run scoring than the quality/placement of the hit itself. Be good to get a players perspective on this?
Baseball is hard, when you see people that have played this game their whole life struggle like they forgot how to play, it tells you something
This makes what major league players do all that much more impressive.
It almost seems like hitting the ball is just a happenstance. There’s a 50/50 chance you may hit it. Then again, the highest % and biggest home run hitters seem to have a trick to it.
I have hit an 85mph baseball and the one thing you CANNOT do is TAKE YOUR EYE OFF THE BALL FOR A MILLISECOND otherwise you ARE SCREWED!!!
BaSeBaLl Is EaSy people say
I have a new-found respect for this sport
Not to mention that they play over 162 games in their season. That’s with spring training but it post season. That part alone is taxing.