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MLB 2025: The Dodgers vs The Field

Kepler said:
If anyone is being driven crazy by MLBTV on Chrome with a circle of Sisyphus, it came right up for me on Edge (Sucks, but not this time).
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It came back. Surprised as usually MLBtvs servers are virtually bulletproof on opening day.

Did hear X and Reddit were down as well, so maybe a networking issue.
 
Brewers/Yankees series has brought attention to the Yankees use of analytics to make a wild innovation, but not with the payroll or lineups.

No, the Yankees have done some quantum mechanics math on the *shape* of the barrel of some players baseball bats, and have innovated a torpedo shape to some, giving extra oomph when connecting with a pitch.

From what I've read, it's all within the exiting rules of the sport as it meets the written criteria.

Even though they walloped the Brewers, I'm not mad at them for this. This might just be the "curved blade" innovation for MLB!

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aparch said:
Brewers/Yankees series has brought attention to the Yankees use of analytics to make a wild innovation, but not with the payroll or lineups.

No, the Yankees have done some quantum mechanics math on the *shape* of the barrel of some players baseball bats, and have innovated a torpedo shape to some, giving extra oomph when connecting with a pitch.

From what I've read, it's all within the exiting rules of the sport as it meets the written criteria.

Even though they walloped the Brewers, I'm not mad at them for this. This might just be the "curved blade" innovation for MLB!

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Interestingly, Judge does not use the torpedo bat.
 
aparch said:
Brewers/Yankees series has brought attention to the Yankees use of analytics to make a wild innovation, but not with the payroll or lineups.

No, the Yankees have done some quantum mechanics math on the *shape* of the barrel of some players baseball bats, and have innovated a torpedo shape to some, giving extra oomph when connecting with a pitch.

From what I've read, it's all within the exiting rules of the sport as it meets the written criteria.

Even though they walloped the Brewers, I'm not mad at them for this. This might just be the "curved blade" innovation for MLB!

01jqj667ccs0bdt6eeka.png
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Quantum mechanics lol. Not even close. That subject was covered in ME102-dynamics (the class that follows ME101- statics). I've been seeing a lot in the news, and how it was "invented" by someone- I have known about the center of percussion for just about 40 years, meaning it's been taught for over 100 years. It's just now someone put together where batters hit the ball and where the center of percussion should be to get the most energy transfer from the batter to the ball. The big difference now is that there's enough data to know where hitters hit most of their balls on the shaft of the bat, and this just customizes the shape to match it for each hitter.

The center of percussion is also known as the "sweet spot".

Why it took so long to put this all together is kind of odd, now that I think about it.
 
MichVandal said:
Quantum mechanics lol. Not even close. That subject was covered in ME102-dynamics (the class that follows ME101- statics). I've been seeing a lot in the news, and how it was "invented" by someone- I have known about the center of percussion for just about 40 years, meaning it's been taught for over 100 years. It's just now someone put together where batters hit the ball and where the center of percussion should be to get the most energy transfer from the batter to the ball. The big difference now is that there's enough data to know where hitters hit most of their balls on the shaft of the bat, and this just customizes the shape to match it for each hitter.

The center of percussion is also known as the "sweet spot".

Why it took so long to put this all together is kind of odd, now that I think about it.
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So how does this differ from "end loading" a bat?

I would have thought having a mass outside the contact point would allow the bat to maintain momentum and transfer more energy to the ball.
 
RaceBoarder said:
So how does this differ from "end loading" a bat?

I would have thought having a mass outside the contact point would allow the bat to maintain momentum and transfer more energy to the ball.
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It's been a while since I calculated the sweet spot, but the basics idea is that it's a location where the counter moment from hitting something is zero- basically, you don't feel it in your hands. That lack of counter moment is why energy is transferred most efficiently. Same idea applies to golf clubs- why they have some interesting shapes, and to tennis rackets- which is one way they got so big.

It's not really about putting more mass out farther, it's about putting the sweet spot in a spot where you will hit whatever you are hitting.
 

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I couldn't make it through this video without crying. Having almost everyone he worked with in the broadcast booth (still living) contribute broke me. Pat Hughes, Jim Powell, and Ueck were the voices I grew up with.

What a tribute.
 
Tigers ran the starter in the first yesterday in Seattle with six runs. Picked up their first win. And the way LAD is going it might be better to just separate the Dodgers out of the record.
 
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