3:51 dude, the visuals here finally made it all click! Been following pitcher statcast metrics on savant for about 4 years now. I’ve always researched pitchers’ active spin but never completely understood it. Are all mlb teams using active spin to drive their pitching staffs?
Yup. 30 years ago the only thing I really wanted to know at the start of an NBA season was how much the HCA was going to be that season. Winning is fairly easy if you know that. Which you can't.
Just found Driveline and watched this vid until the end on my tv. After the end and wiping a tear from my eye, I immediately got on the PC to comment and advised that I am now shopping for that dongle thing.... (and swell as that smash bat). We have a camwood bat (34oz?), though for my 8-9yo, it is likely on the heavy side. We have definitely improved the bat speed for 2 months (avg from 35-38 to 44-46), but may have capped that improvement for now. I haven't noticed a drop in his swing. Driveline is in Seattle and Arizona... any development on coming to Los Angeles/Pasadena/Glendale area? As I understand it, many Dodger players are in the Glendale area... and their Farm team is in Rancho Cucamonga. There is also UCLA/USC and multiple Big West teams in LA area (Long Beach, Fullerton, Northridge or Irvine in the OC) around here.
There is a huge factor being ignored here, and that is the bats themselves. Guys with the fastest swings swing the longest and thinnest bats barreled bats. This means smaller sweet spot, but since everything is maple and birch now, and every bat is delivered with a compressed barrel, EVs will be highest. Whereas contact hitters like Arraez swings a short CU26, which is more or less a tennis racket. The barrel is massive, which makes it harder to swing fast. However, you really don’t need to since the mass of the barrel will do a lot of the work for you, so you can have a nice short swing and get results. I think teams will optimize to get the best of both worlds, like Wilson Contreras has, by having strong, powerful hitters swing shorter, bigger barreled bats with shorter swings, maybe losing a little max batspeed, but also getting better contact quality more often. Then of course, which was mentioned here was adjustability. A shorter, thicker bat can be swung plenty hard.
What should I be tracking while in game, and talking about making spreadsheets as I don't have access to Trakt do you have a template that would help outline what I'm keeping mental notes of
I agree. I have 2 sons, they are less than 4 years amd I had them play together. My younger son is not stronger or faster, but he is more consistent on making contact. I think in part his swing is slower he stays on the hiz zone faster..While my older son swings faster and tends to be early most of the time and swings out of the hitting zone sooner than when the ball arrives. I video both of them and after games, we watch their swings in slow motion an see what happened
The answer is yes. A higher weighted bat, when swung at the same speed, will hit the ball farther. Simple physics...Force = Mass x Acceleration. However, the issue is that studies have shown that increasing bat speed has a larger impact on batted ball velocity than increasing bat weight. So, if you can swing a bat faster, it will hit a ball farther than increasing bat weight, all things being equal. We know there are limits to how fast a person can swing a bat, regardless of weight. What you want to do, if possible, is find the limit of swing speed and swing the heaviest bat you can at that speed. This, theoretically, will maximize the batted ball velocity. However, in practice, moments of inertia and the center of mass of the bat also have an impact. At the end of the day, if a batter has confidence that he/she will get a hit with a bat, that appears to be more important than anything else. Hope this helps.
@@Michael-i4d Obviously, the weight of the bat matters. Also, it's obvious that bat speed matters. But as bat weight goes up, bat speed goes down. How do you suggest a hitter finds the happy medium?
@@somebody-by9ge These days, you have many different options assuming you have access to different bats. You can use a pocket radar to measure exit velocity off the bat, you can go to a hitting facility that has a rapsido or hittrax, or you can simply go old school and have the player hit with different bats to see the different distances the ball travels in real life. Most of all, how the hitter feels about the bat makes the most difference IMHO as I coach kids. If they think they will get a hit with the bat, they generally do. If they think the bat is not good, they don't hit well.
