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MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming

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Re: MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming

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Post by rglullis »

next_xibalba wrote: post #108
jorvi wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every sport hits this sort of threshold where they ban optimization. Swimming did it with 'sharkskin' suits and long distance running with Nike's Alphafly and Vaporfly shoes. Maybe that's where advanced baseball bats will end up eventually.

Which is so silly. I would love to watch a sport where all the athletes are on cutting edge, dangerously experimental PEDs and all the equipment is engineered to the very limits of nature. We draw oddly arbitrary lines what is and isn’t ok in sports.

> dangerously experimental PEDs

Would you be willing to be the guinea pig?

Re: MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming

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Post by nine_k »

next_xibalba wrote: post #108
jorvi wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every sport hits this sort of threshold where they ban optimization. Swimming did it with 'sharkskin' suits and long distance running with Nike's Alphafly and Vaporfly shoes. Maybe that's where advanced baseball bats will end up eventually.

Which is so silly. I would love to watch a sport where all the athletes are on cutting edge, dangerously experimental PEDs and all the equipment is engineered to the very limits of nature. We draw oddly arbitrary lines what is and isn’t ok in sports.

That would be a great show, but hardly a fair competition.

The spirit of fair competition (and thus ordering teams according to some predefined metric) is very important to most sports.

Re: MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming

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Post by jjulius »

lenerdenator wrote: post #110

Cool. Make it open-source for the rest of the league. Otherwise this is just more proof that Yankees fans are the same kind of people who would cheer when the casino wins another slot machine pull.

My father-in-law has openly admitted that the reason they're his favorite team is because they have the most money. Verbatim.

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Post by 98codes »

lenerdenator wrote: post #110

Cool. Make it open-source for the rest of the league. Otherwise this is just more proof that Yankees fans are the same kind of people who would cheer when the casino wins another slot machine pull.

The concept is out there -- different players would have different tendencies that would require slightly different adjustments.

This will make the team owners either do their own analysis, or come up with yet more excuses to hide the fact that while they could afford it, they won't.

Re: MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming

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Post by burkaman »

next_xibalba wrote: post #108
jorvi wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every sport hits this sort of threshold where they ban optimization. Swimming did it with 'sharkskin' suits and long distance running with Nike's Alphafly and Vaporfly shoes. Maybe that's where advanced baseball bats will end up eventually.

Which is so silly. I would love to watch a sport where all the athletes are on cutting edge, dangerously experimental PEDs and all the equipment is engineered to the very limits of nature. We draw oddly arbitrary lines what is and isn’t ok in sports.

https://www.enhanced.com/

Re: MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming

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Post by 98codes »

jjulius wrote: post #115
lenerdenator wrote: post #110

Cool. Make it open-source for the rest of the league. Otherwise this is just more proof that Yankees fans are the same kind of people who would cheer when the casino wins another slot machine pull.

My father-in-law has openly admitted that the reason they're his favorite team is because they have the most money. Verbatim.

Remind him that he needs to turn in his interlocking NY for an interlocking LA.

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Post by lbotos »

Im glad this landed here so I can ask:

Physics nerds, would a “larger contact area” give the baseball more velocity?

I’ve been speculating that moving the mass lower effectively increases bat speed because its a “shorter bat”, but all of the commentary is acting like the larger barrel is “more power”.

I’d expect larger barrel increases odds of contact, not increased power transfer?

(But I also think of a car with bike diameter wheels and that could obviously change the power transfer)

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