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Posted on 12/28/22 at 12:04 am to foosball
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He never saw a 92 mph slider
Think about it this way. How many 90 MPH breaking balls do you think Major League hitters saw in high school or college? Pretty much zero, right? Yet all of them were able to adjust to be able to hit them. When you’re a top notch hitter, you get used to the additional velo and spin rate of pitches and learn how to hit them when you see it enough. Otherwise, there will never be any hitters who will be able to go from playing high school or college ball to the Major Leagues.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 12:08 am to foosball
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He never saw a 92 mph slider
This is true.
But he also didn't have a strike zone the size of a nickel. Back then, it was knees to chest and width of the plate.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 1:17 am to foosball
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He never saw a 92 mph slider
Bob Feller threw over 100mph.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 5:15 am to foosball
He once told a former pitcher that he could actually see exactly where the bat was making contact with the ball. The pitcher didn't believe him so they went to a park and the pitcher threw his best stuff for Williams to hit. Williams lathered up his bat extra heavy with pine tar and when he made contact with a pitch he told the pitcher one seam, two seams, or no seams. The pitcher would then get the ball and look where the pine tar was on the ball. William's hit ten pitches and called every one correctly. I don't think a 92 mph slider would cause him any problems.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 9:32 am to foosball
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He never saw a 92 mph slider
the dude wrote an entire book based on hitting.
he broke down what his batting average would be for every baseball sized dot in the strike zone.
he did that using 1960's era technology and training.
now imagine him having access to today's training, today's technology, etc.
now also imagine him playing in a league where pitching is drastically watered down compared to his era.
most of his career there was half as many teams in the AL as there are now.
and those teams mostly used 4 man rotations instead of the 5 used today
8 teams x 4 pitchers = 32
15 teams x 5 pitchers = 75
meaning in today's game he'd get a LOT more opportunities to feast on the types of arms that would never have even made a roster in his era.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 12:52 pm to foosball
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He never saw a 92 mph slider
He was such a student of hitting (obsessed) Tony Gwynn among others were in awe of him despite being generations apart.
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Ted Williams is claimed to have had eyesight close to 20/10, which is roughly the limit of the human eye for visual acuity. This helped him advance in his career as a renowned jet pilot
If I had to pick one player in MLB history that could dominate any era...it would be Ted Williams.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 1:08 pm to foosball
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He never saw a 92 mph slider
Great hitters are great hitters because they punish mistakes.
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