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this is HUGE!! : Moonshot: The -Rocket Ball- Has Disappeared In October | |
| illuminatimessagetoyou User ID: 65038713  United States10/16/2019 07:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Could the Dejuiced Baseball Send MLB Into Another Dead-Ball Era? __________________________________ Moonshot: The Rocket Ball Has Disappeared In October Robert Arthur Baseball Prospectus October 10, 2019 Note: October[10th month] + 10th day + 2019[12] = 32 Rob Arthur of Baseball Prospectus compared the drag coefficient of the baseball after the division series to the last week of the regular season and found the largest week-to-week change this season by far, and a ball that grabbed the air more than it had at any point since 2016. Given park effect, launch angle, and exit velocity, Arthur calculated that there should have been 67 home runs hit in the divisional round, when in reality there were only 43. Included in the missing 24 were three balls that would have had a 95 percent chance or better of reaching the seats in the regular season. And while the cold weather of October is an obvious place to look for an explanation, Arthur pointed out that at the time he performed his study, the average 2019 postseason game had actually been played in warmer conditions than the average 2019 regular-season game.  |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 65038713 United States10/16/2019 07:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Over the weekend, Cardinals manager Mike Shildt said his analytics team had told him the ball was carrying 4 1/2 feet less than it had during the `regular-season`. The 2019 season was the 119th since the American League was founded in 1901. Out of those 119 seasons, 2019 ranked 98th highest in league-wide batting average (.252), 91st highest in hits per team game (8.65), tied for 77th in OBP (.323), and first in strikeouts (8.81 per team game). For the second straight year—and only the second time in MLB history—there were more strikeouts than hits. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 65038713 United States10/16/2019 07:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Against this tide of pitcher-friendly trends, there is one force, and only one, holding up today’s above-average run-scoring environment: the juiced ball, which has goosed the home run rate to such a risibly elevated level that it’s kept back the flood, like the little boy with his finger in the dike. The most celebrated example of this home-run-reliant offensive environment is how opponents scored runs off Justin Verlander. In 2012, Verlander finished a close second in Cy Young voting when he posted a 2.64 ERA with a K/9 ratio of 9.0, a BB/9 ratio of 2.3, and an HR/9 ratio of 0.7. In 2019, Verlander posted a nearly identical ERA, 2.58, but struck out 12.1 batters per nine innings, walked just 1.7, and allowed 1.5 home runs per nine innings. Verlander allowed 66 runs, 45 of them on home runs: 28 solo dingers, seven two-run shots, and a three-run blast. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 65038713 United States10/16/2019 07:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The last full year before the juiced ball, 2014, teams hit 0.86 home runs per game and accounted for 33.4 percent of total runs. In the past five seasons, the number of home runs per game has increased by almost 62 percent. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 74014456 United States10/16/2019 07:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So you are saying its Mike Schmidt's fault because he didn't hit enough homers way back when to make the comparison more equal. Maybe Bench and Perez could have helped some more...or Boog. Or Harmon or Ernie but the ball will never change. Its just a chunk of horeshide. . |
| illuminatimessagetoyou (OP) User ID: 65038713 United States10/16/2019 07:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So you are saying its Mike Schmidt's fault because he didn't hit enough homers way back when to make the comparison more equal. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74014456 Maybe Bench and Perez could have helped some more...or Boog. Or Harmon or Ernie but the ball will never change. Its just a chunk of horeshide. . read full article here: [link to www.theringer.com (secure)] the definitive article requires subscription: [link to www.baseballprospectus.com (secure)] the point of this thread is: Illuminati message to you |
| illuminatimessagetoyou (OP) User ID: 65038713 United States10/16/2019 07:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | He got on this path after being fairly dissatisfied with his education and wondered what he could actually be certain he knew. He predicted The Matrix 350 years in advance and admitted the possibility that all sense-data could be falsified, that the devil could be projecting illusions straight into his brain. The only thing he was left with was the fact that he was thinking about it. With that sole data point, he had a platform for creating a philosophical approach that would lead into the Renaissance. |
