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Originally Posted by JustinVerlander07
This is the problem with Baseball, people like you who don't want anything to ever change. The concept of exit velocity is pretty simple: good hitters have high exit velocity (generally), bad hitters don't (generally). The harder you hit the ball the more likely you are to get a hit. Why you'd be afraid of that is bizarre other than I can only assume you're in your 40s and up and want everyone to get off your lawn.
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I think this is what baseball people don't like. The harder a ball is hit, the higher chance in a base hit is only true if you are blindly hitting, swinging wlidly without any idea where it is going. The exit velocity crowd therfore preach that style of hitting. But it's not true for a hitter who is skilled with a bat and can put the ball where they are trying. It's a classic example of misunderstanding statistics. Stats show on average a harder hit ball has a better chance of being a hit. But that's because it includes both good and bad hitters. Some balls have an 85mph exit velocity because the hitter is bad and can't square up the ball. But some balls hit 85 are from Tony Gwynn or Ichiro slapping it intentionally over the head of the infielder. And players with thise skills are rare. So their stats get swallowed up in exit velocity stats of lesser players. Consequently, instead of teaching hitters to be skillful, we teach them to swing hard, which actually compounds the issue. Now the truly skilled hitter is even more rare and the game is filled with people who swing hard, and the best of them are now considered the skilled hitters.
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