The additional distance is with the bat near top speed so the bat covers that distance more quickly. And all I need to do is start a beat sooner. We're talking 12" at 70-80 mph. That's almost 12 feet in a tenth of a second, so or 14" in one hundredth of a second.
Hey I was always wondering what my DD looked like as a stick figure....Both of these hitters are hitting a HR, both could hit HR's, one is a career .300 hitter with minimal strikeouts, the other is a sub par .250 hitters and averaged a strikeout per game. Sorry there isn't more of their swings, although this does show the difference between the two.
Which hitter is quick to the ball and what hitter is applying force over a longer distance? Which hitter is the better one, left or right?
Both of these hitters are hitting a HR, both could hit HR's, one is a career .300 hitter with minimal strikeouts, the other is a sub par .250 hitters and averaged a strikeout per game. Sorry there isn't more of their swings, although this does show the difference between the two.
Which hitter is quick to the ball and what hitter is applying force over a longer distance? Which hitter is the better one, left or right?
I'll take the lefty! I bet he hit a lot of bombs.
The lefty hit 222 Hr’s with a career .307 batting average. He walked 588 times and struck out 444 times. He played 14 years. 7722 at bats.
The righty hit 206 HR’s with a career .246 batting average. He walked 360 times and struck out 1277 times. He played 12 years. 4233 at bats.
For a fixed impulse, the greatest acceleration will happen at the slower speed and the bat will cover the most distance at the highest speed.My question regarding the 1/100 seconds was with regards to this statement:
Unless he knows the acceleration at each point along the bat path, for the long and short bat paths, he has no way of knowing whether the longer path will have a time to contact which is 1/100 longer....One cannot just assume the different mechanics will have the same acceleration profile along the different paths. Like I said before, the way the body generates force isn't that simple. Heck the longer path in space may actually have a shorter time to contact because the body may generate force more efficiently for that path...