I'm surely no physicist, scientist or mathematician, so if this comes off as dumb, i'm just a dumb amateur ham-n-egger ballplayer. Your idea here is VERY interesting! Was the crazy movement on the 2 oz ball in the video clip the result of it being able to spin more than the regular weighted ball or more of a factor of the change in the gravity forces? If MLB moved to a slightly heavier ball, would that REDUCE movement of the pitch and enable hitters to hit straighter pitchers and barrel them up more often? I'm sure we could surmise but would need to see it play out. VERY interesting thought her Will, as always. Now I'm going to be running this around my brain all day long! Keep up the great work.
Yes. Less movement bc the inertia of the ball is more. Alan Nathan (!!) did some calculations if you look on Twitter about both that and how the ball would carry from hitters.
I'm surely no physicist, scientist or mathematician, so if this comes off as dumb, i'm just a dumb amateur ham-n-egger ballplayer. Your idea here is VERY interesting! Was the crazy movement on the 2 oz ball in the video clip the result of it being able to spin more than the regular weighted ball or more of a factor of the change in the gravity forces? If MLB moved to a slightly heavier ball, would that REDUCE movement of the pitch and enable hitters to hit straighter pitchers and barrel them up more often? I'm sure we could surmise but would need to see it play out. VERY interesting thought her Will, as always. Now I'm going to be running this around my brain all day long! Keep up the great work.
Yes. Less movement bc the inertia of the ball is more. Alan Nathan (!!) did some calculations if you look on Twitter about both that and how the ball would carry from hitters.