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Faster the pitch the farther it goes?
Posted on 6/8/25 at 11:43 pm
Posted on 6/8/25 at 11:43 pm
I've heard this my whole baseball career but is it true? Players seem to hit it farther in BP/homerun derby with slow velocity. Sammy Sosa hit one 525 ft in HR Derby.
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Posted on 6/8/25 at 11:44 pm to LsuSaintsCub57
It’s not the same bats or balls used in a HR derby. They’ve got a little juice in them
Posted on 6/8/25 at 11:45 pm to LsuSaintsCub57
They're juiced AND each pitch is a meat ball. No guessing where it's gonna be.
Posted on 6/8/25 at 11:51 pm to LsuSaintsCub57
Physics is undefeated
Are we still debating Newton's Laws?
Are we still debating Newton's Laws?
Posted on 6/9/25 at 12:50 am to PurpleandGold Motown
OP is asking why home run derby pitches are lobs if fastballs make for better HRs.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 7:47 am to biglego
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OP is asking why home run derby pitches are lobs if fastballs make for better HRs.
...because it's a test of who can hit the most homeruns, not a test of who can hit the farthest home run.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 8:00 am to LsuSaintsCub57
They swing for the fences every time in the HR derby. Those aren't their game swings.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 8:18 am to LsuSaintsCub57
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I've heard this my whole baseball career but is it true? Players seem to hit it farther in BP/homerun derby with slow velocity. Sammy Sosa hit one 525 ft in HR Derby.
throwing velocity only contribute roughly 15% of the exit velocity equation...so the answer is yes but not much.
Dr Allen Nathan at university of Illinois has written bunch of papers about the physics of baseball and has created formulas on how all this works
driveline, mlb and others have used his work to figure things out.
physics of baseball papers
article from usa today
Video explaining everything
Posted on 6/9/25 at 8:20 am to LsuSaintsCub57
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my whole baseball career
So until you were 10.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 8:32 am to LsuSaintsCub57
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Players seem to hit it farther in BP/homerun derby with slow velocity
Easier to hit it on the sweet spot of the bat when you know exactly where the pitch is going to be.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 9:40 am to Black n Gold
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my whole baseball career
So until you were 10.
Got 'em
Posted on 6/9/25 at 10:10 am to PurpleandGold Motown
What is Newton’s Third Law? (from spacecenter.org/)
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Newton’s third law simply states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
So, if object A acts a force upon object B, then object B will exert an opposite yet equal force upon object A.
This post was edited on 6/9/25 at 10:12 am
Posted on 6/9/25 at 10:55 am to biglego
Timing and launch angle is everything
Posted on 6/9/25 at 11:18 am to LsuSaintsCub57
All things being exactly the same the answer is yes, lol. Launch angle, wind, etc. but those things rarely happen. Most hits are different even if slightly.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 11:22 am to LsuSaintsCub57
In an absolute vacuum, yes
This post was edited on 6/9/25 at 11:27 am
Posted on 6/9/25 at 12:25 pm to moneyg
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because it's a test of who can hit the most homeruns, not a test of who can hit the farthest home run.
Yes. Although I’ve watched home run derbies where it seems the batter just wasn’t comfortable with the slow lobs. When you’re always practicing for 85+ mph pitches, suddenly facing 50mph is an adjustment.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 3:34 pm to LsuSaintsCub57
Home run derby uses the same juiced baseballs that mlb used for Judge the year he hit 62
Posted on 6/9/25 at 5:16 pm to LsuSaintsCub57
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I've heard this my whole baseball career but is it true?
Aren’t the physics behind hitting a transfer of energy?
Mark McGwire took Randy Johnson 538 in the Kingdome
Posted on 6/9/25 at 5:38 pm to LsuSaintsCub57
It can sure, but the faster it is obviously you have to react faster and be more precise
Posted on 6/9/25 at 10:06 pm to LsuSaintsCub57
Mickey Mantle hit the longest confirmed HR at 734 ft off Bill Fischer. The pitch? Fastball. Should tell you all you need to know.
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