Wiffle balls have holes which allow for increased movement but also increased deceleration. By the time it gets to the batter it’s less. Also swinging a wiffle ball bat is 10x easier and lighter than a baseball bat allowing for quicker swing speeds making it easier to make contact
2 things 1. The bar is far lighter allowing for adjustments and faster swinging. 2. The ball slows down way faster than you thing it’s peak velocity is 95 mph yet it will be hit when it is around 70-80
@@dripacuna this doesn't mean anything. like a user above said, i can soft toss you a ball from 1 ft away and it will get to you faster than any mlb pitch ever but it's incredibly easy to hit. the velocity is what matters.
@@mitchelltear Listen, I'm not saying it's easy to hit those pitches, but 95mph is not the average velocity. If the ball travels 45 feet in 0.38s, that would be 118.42 ft/s or 80.74mph over the duration of the pitch. Anything measured in the 90's has to be peak velo!
@@MexicanMaestro10 your right, I did the math after I commented that and saw I was wrong. I just assumed that’s how the guy in the video calculated the velocity
Yes, but they are also thrown faster initially (bc they are lighter)...so it kinda evens itself put at this distance as seen in the time it takes to hit the board demonstration.
A wiffleball would definitely lose a ton of velocity by the time it gets to the plate, unlike a baseball, so it’s probably not traveling 95 mph the entire time
wiffle ball bats average 19.5 ounces while mlb are 33 ounces, every ounces of bat weight is around a 7mph bat speed difference. so 33-19.5=13.5, 13.5*7=94.5 mph bat speed differnnce. *correct me if im wrong idk
It’s really not. The wiffle balls peak velocity is 95 but that’s as soon as it leaves the hand. After it’s released it losing speed almost immediately. The only reason the time to catcher is less is because they stand closer.
Yea but you can see that the whiffle ball pitch loses a lot of velocity between the mound and the plate, so there is actually more time to hit than u might think, assuming velocity for whiffle ball is measured the same as in baseball
You also have to take into consideration that a wiggle ball bat weighs significantly less than a baseball bat, therefore the hitter for baseball actually has less time to determine if they want to swing at the pitch because they have to get the bat going. Not saying wiffleball is easy, it is far from it, I’m just saying it’s not as difficult as baseball is.
My baseball coach once explained “would you rather hit a 200mph ball from the outfield or soft toss from 3 feet away” time it takes to reach the plate is not the same as velocity
Thank you, somebody else with sense. Reaction time is much less a factor than the total time window available to hit the ball, in which velocity is the only factor
This is all true, but you also gotta take into consideration that the bat weighs about 2 ouches. This makes the time to do a swing very slow. I’m not saying hitting is easy. It is far from it, but it’s not unhittable. Although this is shown in wiggle ball.
One thing you didn’t mention is having to get out of the way of the ball. The fact that a baseball hurts a lot more when it hits you makes for a much different at bat.
@@vibeskai I’m reading back your comment and I don’t even know what either of us are saying. I’m genuinely so confused because I don’t understand your comment, so I don’t understand mine
So that’s peak velocity which is very fast, but not the average speed like a baseball so it slows down a lot faster. Also, the bats are a LOT lighter, so it doesn’t take as long to get is swinging. This isn’t to discount the professional wiffle ball players though because the movement you can get on a wiffle ball is WAY more than you could get with a baseball. They’re just different sports with different challenges.
as someone who doesnt play baseball or wiffle ball, do these wiffle ball players really know what they’re swinging at? or is it just swinging for the fences and pray you connect? i understand in baseball you can kinda gauge the pitch coming as it doesn’t have as crazy curves like a wiffle ball does. but what about wiffle ball?
The speed of a fast wiffle ball is on average about 45 mph. You can’t compare how fast a wiffle ball reaches the plate to mlb. One’s 35 feet the other is 60…
I don’t know if you’re right or wrong, but a baseball has a lot more mass meaning it has more momentum, so I think it would be easier or at least the same.
@@jonahmays he’s right. A wiffle ball has air holes in it aswell. If they throw a baseball from the same place it would be different. That bat and ball weigh different.
Uh yeah, but MLB bats weigh about 40 ounces, whereas whiffle ball bats weigh less than 10 ounces. So let’s not forget the huge boost in reaction time and bat speed to counter the shorter distance!! Second, a wiffle ball, because of its weight and holes, will decelerate about 8x faster than a baseball. By the time it travels the 45 ft to the batter, it will have lost ~45% of its velocity. So that theoretical “127 mph” pitch, would reach the batter at a theoretical “70 mph” instead. By comparison, a baseball would lose about 10% of its velocity over 60ft, so that “95 mph” fastball would reach the batter at ~85 mph, significantly faster than the perceived 70 mph of the wiffle ball.
Buddy wiffle bats vs wooden bats… you forget? lol you can see the ball exponentially longer . And peak velocity is deflating constantly in a wiffle ball. Baseballs do not slow down as they get to you
Since you showed that its a pocket radar i can say the bat is moving 95 but you dont have the radar in the right place to pick up ball speed, it has to be in front behind or directly next to the object being radared with nothing moving in between the radar and object
