"If I never show up on the highlight wheel, it means I'm faster than everyone else who did," he says. "I don't have to make a shoe-string catch because I'm standing there waiting for the ball." He adds that his speed and bigger perimeter allows him to cover more of the outs. 'This is not baggage hour from your lily traumas'
What is exit velocity? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore parabolas, measuring the speed of an object using the Doppler effect, and other physics in baseball.
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