The Science Of Hitting A Major League Fastball
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2016
- 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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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.
I don’t particularly like baseball, but saying it’s a “sissy’s game” is dumb. You stand in front of a plate, staring down a six-foot tall man ready to chuck a rock at you at speeds faster than a car on the highway, and all you have to defend yourself is a plastic helmet and a wooden stick. There’s also the part where you actually have to hit the ball, which is explained here.
What a dumb thing to say. Your friend sounds like one of those hockey nerds who thinks suffering brain damage is a necessary component to being considered a “real man’s sport.” If baseball was a sissy sport, there’d be no need to have a whole other version of the sport for women (softball). Not even boxing and MMA does this.
I still say one of the most amazing plays I've ever seen was Billy Crystal fouling off a spring training pitch on his 60th birthday.
This is why they say it's the hardest thing to do in all of sports. But the math is overlooked
Yeah I hate how people say baseball is the easy sport but I'd like to see anyway that says that try to hit a 95mph fastball
who says that?
@@SuperMathewson Anyone with a brain
Or fielding a scorcher coming straight at you.
Not to mention changups, curveballs, sliders, and 2 & 4 seam fastballs all at precise locations around the strike zone which makes hitting a baseball SO FREAKING HARD!!!
Don’t forget some pitchers be throwing a 99 too
Hitting a home run is the hardest things in professional sports they say...really easy to believe after this video.
"They" are clearly wrong. Odds of a hole in one by a professional golfer: 1 in 2,500. Barry Bonds hit a home run 6.52 at bats. Imagine if the top golfer hit a hole in one every 6.52 par 3s. Most PGA hole in ones... 10... over an entire career. Sticking to baseball "things".. pitching a perfect game is much harder. It's only been done 23 times in MLB history... 1 in 46,800.
@@lecroitg TH-cam comments are usually horrible, but this comment is so bad it haunts me. Your argument is bad in like, 400 different ways.
You start by comparing Barry Bonds, the most prolific, jacked up power hitter of all time, to "your average golfer". "They" are completely correct. There are almost 20,000 PGA golfers. Theres 750 MLB players. 130,000 hole in ones per year, by people who have played for an avg of 24 years, and have an average age of 55 years old. If 750 MLB players hit golf balls for 24 years, there would be hundreds if not thousands, of "hole in ones". Not a single one of those 130,000 that hit a hole in one could hit a major league fastball out of the park. I would guess that maybe 1%, could foul one off, if they trained. Tiger woods trying to hit a fastball, would be embarrassing. A golfer isn't the athlete a baseball player is, the hand eye, the strength. A golf ball is stationary. It sits. And timing isn't even an aspect of golf. Hit it whenever you want, take five minutes to look at it if you want.
A pitch comes at you, in three dimensions, in a rate of speed where your decision to swing, location of swing, is done in a third of a second. If you needs even more evidence, baseball players golf for fun all the time, baseball players hit hole in ones ALL THE TIME. Mike Trout hit a hole in one. Brian Matusz hit two in one day, one left handed, and one right handed. You could argue for football, basketball, even soccer and hockey requiring more skill, but this is just bad news.
TLDR: If a hole in one, is usually done, by senior citizen, who has been golfing for 24 years.... your sport has a similar skillset of a nascar driver or a fortnite player. MLB players can sock dingers, can sink a hole in one. A baseball player is usually a multisport athlete who made a decision to play baseball over football or basketball. A golfer, cant do any of it. The best athletes, aren't drawn to the least athletic game.
Christopher Galla that last sentence made me smile
Christopher Galla lol thanks for roasting that guy so didn’t have too 👍
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.
And people say baseball is easy 😂😂
Only dumb fatties who haven't lifted a baseball bat in their life say so
Every thing is easy until you have to actually do it.
It's only easy to understand the game, but hard to master and play
I didn't like ur comment so it remains at 69 likes
Because for a pro sport, it is easy.
I cannot even a hit ball standing atop a T.
I can but with a downward angry swing of frustration.
I can’t hit a home run with a T
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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
And the ones that do it three out of 10 times in a year get those $300 million contracts
Hitting s baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports
Its all about the feet and mental aspect of the game
(Your feet need to be impeccable)
Deep
According to MLB scouts, Chapman's fastball has been clocked as high as 105 mph (169 km/h)
106 now
Thats insane
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.
im 14 and i have gone in 85mph fastball machine. geez, idk how they hit 95 😳😳
went crazy when i made contact lol
Holy Shit!! You need some Ultra Instinct shit to hit a ball that fast!!
The trick is not thinking too much. You have to either swing or not swing. No inbetween.
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.
THANK YOU
i use to be a pitcher...my batting average was 0.083 for 2 seasons...i was lucky to make contact for foul balls
I somehow understood every second of the timing but also don't understand how it's possible. Damn I love that sport
Seeing all the players making it look easy
This great video told us that MLB is fill with a great deal of Monsters!
I am also a pro...........
at missing a baseball
Rafael devers from red sox hit a ~102mph fastball
Brian Peralta he’s literally living in the future
Thanks for the amazing content !!!
And people say baseball is easy 😂
I have a new-found respect for this sport
He didn’t even mention breaking balls
And that’s what makes hitting hard
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😎
Cool!!!
This makes what major league players do all that much more impressive.
and the amazing thing is that they are never actually "predicting" the pitch. it all happens in that 400ms timeframe.
U are great
TIP: put a high powered, light weight magnet in the baseball ⚾🤓 steel bat
muscle memory
Muscle memory helps the motion of the swing only. It doesn't help you gauge the ball's speed and trajectory
@@rudivanrooijen7611 It does though. Muscle memory responds to visual stimulus. AKA the motion of the pitcher's arm, hand and body.
What lf lt ls one of those Aroldis Chapman fastballs ahh???🤭🙃
That’s actually a good question. So his stride is actually 120% of his height, at just over 7 feet, so he’s already closer to the plate at release. Then, while average pitchers release above the foot, he releases a whole foot in front of his stride. That’s another foot checked off. Finally his arm whips around in about half the time of an average pitcher
Then you are fucked
Is it just me or did I hear "Yogi Bear said.." 😂😂😂
there was a major league catcher named yogi berra
Sandlot kids is a great film. FACT
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!!!
20/12 vision?
Edgar Martinez hold my walking stick
20/20 vision is not even perfect vision and not enough to play in the major.😳
wow
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
Who edited this?
Griffey said Nolan Ryan threw so fast the ball looked like a pill 😂
Add swing and a hard leather comming at you at even greater speeds that's cricket
God I love this game.
I'd say it is the most difficult sport at which to excel. It also has the highest incidence of injury.
Brian P. Hower lol
Not even close. Basketball has higher injury rates, as do football & soccer
NJOverclocked the only reason soccer would have more injuries is because those little pussys fake injuries so they can get a brake. Soccer players aren’t tough at all
Eric Goodman that's the one thing I hate about soccer. Like literally they pretend they're hurt while hockey players pretend they're not.
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.
I have 20/7 vision
Actually you are supposed to be late on outside pitches and early on inside pitches
Inside pitches
For the last one
true
The real question is how to hit a cutter from Mariano Rivera
The only comeback people have is “liar” and “ baseball still is easy”
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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 .
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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?
No
Wouldn’t that mean that hitting a softball is harder? Because they’re closer to the batter
Yes and no. While they are closer, it is slower and the ball is touch bigger. BUT, the ball is coming with more force and generally rises up instead of down, so I would say with those trade offs baseball and fast-pitch softball are about the same difficulty.
I don't understand. I use kph and metres
Me too! I was using the google units coversion every 5 seconds.
+thanosaekk lol
As an american i hate that america is the only one to use different ways of measuring distance.
ravous246 I will counter that by saying one word. Murcia.
we use both dumb ass and its because we can. get fucked. Were better and more advanced in every way. we have single states (1/50) with a bigger economy than where you are from. get off the internet, which you wouldn't have without us, and read a book
I keep strikin out in tee ball... guess i need more roids.
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I hate "science" things that completely have no clue what science actually is.
Science is not just measuring and statistics.
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.
Get of TH-cam you old man 👴
You say that because you’ve never played the game fatass
Bet you can't even hit a 60 mph pitch with no curve in it.
Frank Saputo In baseball hitting 300 is really good. That means you fail at your job 7 out of 10 times. If Stephen Curry hit 3 shots out of every 10 he wouldn’t be a basketball player. If Tom Brady completed 3 out of every 10 passes he wouldn’t be in the NFL. It’s a round bat and a round ball yet you have to square it up.
mad butcher you probably quit in your freshman year because all you did was sit the bench
I feel like this is a sloght remake of the documentry "fastball"