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Pitchers Learning to Make Better Breaking Pitches with Technology
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[QUOTE="BillTre, post: 6183455, member: 581757"] Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers are learning how to make breaking pitches better with technological assists. Strikeouts are frequently attributed to increased speed of fast balls, but it seems that there are more strikeouts from breaking pitches. Pitches that are thrown to curve (like curve balls and sliders), making them more difficult to hit, are called breaking pitches. I have always liked the application of physics to throwing baseballs, especially since I read Ted William's [URL='https://www.amazon.com/dp/0671621033/?tag=pfamazon01-20']The Science of Hitting[/URL] when I was young. This is an interesting application of that. [URL='https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mlb-curves-and-sliders-have-gotten-alarmingly-nasty/']This 538 article[/URL] describes how, in the last two years or so, pitchers have been able drastically increase the amount their sliders and curves. [ATTACH type="full"]244080[/ATTACH] This is data from the [B][I]pitch-tracking era[/I][/B] (since 2008), a period defined by new data gathering technology that can measure these things. They have done this by understanding what they want to do physically with the ball and then using high tech analysis for immediate feedback on their technique. It has to do with getting the ball to spin more with a optimally aligned axis of spin. The article also has a great link to a Veritasium video on the Magnus effect which can cause thrown balls to curve. [/QUOTE]
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