The strike zone is determined by the size of the player, right? Correct. So I love players like Altuve because no, he's not six, seven or however big judge judges on the Yankees and he popped home runs like the best of them. And so we can't ignore the value of technique, hand-eye coordination, response time, brain synapse. Am I going to swing at this pitch where I only have a fraction of a second to make that decision? You still want to swing mostly forward and get that bat speed on the ball as much as possible.
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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