Debunking Baseball Myths - Mythbusters - S04 EP15

Debunking Baseball Myths - Mythbusters - S04 EP15 - Science Documentary

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10 ай бұрын

In this captivating episode of MythBusters, baseball takes centre stage as the team delves into some popular myths surrounding the sport. Joined by legendary pitcher Roger Clemens, the MythBusters All-Stars embark on a baseball special like never before. First up, they tackle the age-old question of whether a corked bat can hit a ball further. With their ingenuity and a batting machine, they put this urban legend to the test. Meanwhile, Carrie, Tory, and Grant investigate the effect of humidity on baseballs. Using a humidor to control humidity levels, they analyse the bounce and distance of dry and humid balls, uncovering surprising results. Can a humid ball go as far as a dry one? The science of baseball is unveiled, and the MythBusters show us the real deal behind the myths.
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@DJVisionMusic 10 ай бұрын

Please continue sharing Mythbusters with us!

@user-qc4xv4pd1w 10 ай бұрын

I could watch Mythbusters any time of the day for a long time and not get bored

@daemonburns-waight2421 9 ай бұрын

17:19 (with captions on) "I _have_ pissed in Colorado and it's difficult to make the ball uh, get your normal movement"

@Panzerkriegen 9 ай бұрын

Seeing Grant so alive and happy hurts the feels man. R.I.P Grant Imahara.

@javiercervantesd 4 ай бұрын

I tried a lot to get him to come to my college in Mexico but it was never possible. He was my favorite. :’)

@darkracer1252 3 ай бұрын

have you gone to see a shrink for that yet? seeing as it's supposed to be joy not sadness. the sadness should come when being reminded of a bad memory. not a good memory. are you the kind of person to get depressed every single time any deceased loved one is mentioned in any way for the rest of your life?

@bradleywindsor6938 10 ай бұрын

We need the mythbusters now more than ever.

@Hexon66 10 ай бұрын

I don't think it was ever a *_myth_* that sliding into 2nd or 3rd was faster. It's always been understood that the effort to not overrun the base is where the upright option falls down, as it were. Plus sliding has the added advantage of possibly eluding a tag. The only *real* sliding myth that they didn't tackle (maybe they did at another time?). was whether sliding (or actually diving headfirst) into *1st* base is faster, a base you *can* overrun. That's been mostly busted, but with a few anomalies.

@CaymanIslandsCatWalks 10 ай бұрын

Spoiler alert

@patrickkirkham 10 ай бұрын

Agreed. I have never heard sliding into second was for speed. I thought it was to possibly evade the tag

@orbyfan 10 ай бұрын

@@patrickkirkham It's also to try and disrupt the double play, while avoiding having the throw from second base hit you between the eyes.

@paulg6274 10 ай бұрын

@@patrickkirkham its mostly cause u cant run through the bag like at first, so u need to stop yourself somehow

@jarskii11 9 ай бұрын

@@patrickkirkhamsliding is for speed, but american baseballers slide competly wrong.

@dankification 10 ай бұрын

I miss grant! Was such a good presentor on the show!

@leatherman6328 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the download! I enjoy a couple episodes after a long day at work.

@michaelfox1432 10 ай бұрын

I love and miss MB. The cork bat test has a problem. They designed the rig to swing at the same speed but if corking a bat really worked it could only do that by increasing the velocity of the bat imparting more energy to the ball. So the real test is does corking a bat change its mass and/or its center of gravity. If it does then a corked bat would indeed move faster and hit the ball further.

@michaelfortier7726 10 ай бұрын

I agree it was an oversight not to test it for the audience, but in reality it's not happening. The cork absorbs energy from the ball, which the standard bat does significantly less, which is why the speed was reduced so much. No human alive is swinging that corked bat at twice the speed either, I wouldn't expect more than a few more MPH.

@rocknral 8 ай бұрын

Well maybe. Just because it moves faster doesn't mean it goes further For example, if you can swing a broom stick 10% faster, will it go as far or 10% further or go anywhere? We know the answer.

@jimmygomtor 9 ай бұрын

Grant: I just don't think we'll be able to both pitch and hit consistently every time. Ohtani: Watch me.

@foxfire69 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for the upload. My fav part of the week

@Alb1n0blk 10 ай бұрын

Yooo... Keep 'em coming!!! Thanks!

@sven_bender 9 ай бұрын

7:36 Even better in slow mo 😂

@EdgewiseChairman32 6 ай бұрын

All these years later, and fans are still discussing the myths being tested. I love it!

@jasonmuller1199 8 ай бұрын

I have never played baseball but cricket bats have thin strips of rubber in the handle to lessen the shock the batter feels in his hands.

@keananmanning5713 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for this i love this show

@randychase305 8 ай бұрын

I always thought the advantage of using a corked bat was the corks make the bat significantly lighter. You could use a bigger bat but have it weigh less to still get the bat speed needed. ⚾🤷‍♂

@AustinJHarrison 9 ай бұрын

RIP Grant Imahara. Thanks for the episodes dude.

@Amm17ar 10 ай бұрын

This was more exciting than actual baseball has ever been to me lol.

@d4slaimless 9 ай бұрын

Indeed!

@PatrickS.Tomlinson 9 ай бұрын

you're both low iq@@d4slaimless

@MarnicSteve92 10 ай бұрын

Tory being a commentator just made me smile

@Dexcellence 9 ай бұрын

33:32 I felt attacked when he said "it's pretty simple" I'm not gonna lie

@samio3907 2 ай бұрын

A hole episode about balls. This is nuts.

@jimmygomtor 9 ай бұрын

Wow! I really didn't expect the corked bat to be busted.

@differentfins 9 ай бұрын

Anyone else realize the rig built for testing humid/dry balls could have been used to test the cork bats? 😂 Also yes its sad watching Grant, RIP.

@JD200_ 9 ай бұрын

They needed two separate machines because they were running their experiments at same time

@differentfins 9 ай бұрын

@@JD200_ the builds take days, the testing takes minutes. I don't think time was an issue.

@paulfigueiredo3168 10 ай бұрын

I've always been bothered by the fact that the corked bat, because it's lighter, is hitting the ball later in it's swing in the high-speed. That's AFTER the point of maximum energy transfer (which would be perpendicular to the path of the ball) but they didn't adjust the rig to correct that.

@jumpman8282 10 ай бұрын

Yes! Even though they carefully tuned their batting machine to make sure that the ball didn't travel vertically, it seems they also completely forgot about the third dimension of 3D space.

@bryanpassifiume8255 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, it was a bad test

@SaulGoodman-w2x 10 ай бұрын

Only the first try was like that. Seems like the next tries were with the correct contact point. Check 26:35

@jumpman8282 10 ай бұрын

@@SaulGoodman-w2x The shot at 26:35 matches frame by frame the shot at 25:10 (which was supposedly with the regular bat). So, the video evidence they provide is not only inconclusive, but deceiving as well. With that said, I don't think Adam and Jamie are that stupid and the inconsistency in timing that we see is more likely from a slip-up in editing rather than a faulty experiment.

@mosesbuddhajesus3362 10 ай бұрын

Really bad test. They start of by saying that they dont want to show how to cork a bat, because MLB forbids it, then they do a bad test, and say that a corked bat is worse. If its worse, why would MLB ban them? This made me not trust the results of mythbusters, and to be honest, its a friggin TV show, not an actual study. Mythbusters are a myth that is busted to be not true lol.

@Duskraven377 7 ай бұрын

“I can make a robot that can do it…” is such a Grant thing to say 😂

@marcelmoreau2733 10 ай бұрын

on both hitting myths all needed was a T from tball. didnt need fancy rigs to hold or shoot the ball. angle the swing slight upwards increase distance.

@jumpman8282 10 ай бұрын

Why was the Humidity Myth only deemed "Plausible" ? The entire reason of the control group of balls that hadn't been tampered with was to make sure that humidity was the only variable that affected the result of the study. And the result was clear as day! None (!) of the 30 humid balls went farther than any of the 30 balls in the control group, while all (!) 30 dry balls did. How much more confirmed can a myth be?

@pieterpretorius1014 10 ай бұрын

sounds a lot like cheating to me. a heavier ball won't fly as far as a light ball. its just simple physics

@bmxscape 10 ай бұрын

@@pieterpretorius1014 welll... if its too light then wind will stop it. aka why you can throw a bowling ball farther than a balloon

@karls8103 9 ай бұрын

dont seem like a cheat if everyone dose it seems more like a controll if u got balls out n through the game they absorb moisture n thus change in there the same start to fin then its fair, if i remember each team take turn bating?

@bmxscape 9 ай бұрын

have you heard of punctuation@@karls8103

@pakuma3 2 ай бұрын

As long as both teams are using the same set of equally dry or equally humid balls

@EdgewiseChairman32 6 ай бұрын

@16:25 Kari was the only one making sense by taking cover as they test it, who knows what might fly where haha

@dzimzy8699 9 ай бұрын

The corked bat myth test was done in the wrong way, the cork doesn’t make the bat springier it makes it lighter but increasing bat speed… Higher bat speed makes hitting the ball easier as well…

@davidnabess8494 10 ай бұрын

I'm sure I saw a clip where a batter did knock the cover off a baseball.

@regadrisn875 10 ай бұрын

Same, couple of times one where the hid ended up by the pitcher and he was like, “What do I do with this kinda look..” The other went to the third baseman and the hide was not totally detached and he tried throwing it to first and it only got as far as the pitcher’s mound or a little further…

@pakuma3 2 ай бұрын

I feel they didn't show how to cork bats to avoid fan comments, but imo, if they had squeezed very wide corks very hard into the bats, the cork might actually help bounce the impact instead of absorbing it.

@jcdelrio100 9 ай бұрын

Super intersting to see the lack of understanding of the physics before the statcast era, like with spin rates, exit velos and spin axis

@TheLastPhoen1x 10 ай бұрын

"Annette is good at catching balls." Well, haven't heard that one before. As stupid as it is, I still find it funny.

@shicrapt 7 ай бұрын

Nobody said the slide is faster than running. That's why batters run as fast as they can from home plate towards 1st base if they want to beat the throw. You only slide to touch and stay in contact with the base so you don't get tagged out.

@chriskostecki8777 9 ай бұрын

Throwing a humid ball is like throwing an illegal spit ball !!! Just an observation

@flyboy9167 10 ай бұрын

YGuys didn't try corked bat on bigger speed. Because corked bat is lighter, it means it'll be bigger speed of swing.

@karls8103 9 ай бұрын

then they could try the lighter bat as they mentioned

@nomimalone7520 9 ай бұрын

37:15 - "give it a few more minutes" *watches grant slide "Maybe a few more hours..."

@andybrown4284 10 ай бұрын

If they want to study the effects of a corked bat they should have had bats of varying weights and cores striking a static ball rather than faffing about making an air cannon. Their experiment was done this way for TV and not all that scientific since the cannon added a variable since it would never be an exact pressure, a static ball is a known variable since it's not moving at the time of impact and by controlling the speed of the bat to keep it consistent the only difference is the distance it travels. A lot of the science on the show was flawed for TV and dressed up to hide problematic variables.

@karls8103 9 ай бұрын

all science is flawed, they first state there answer then attempt to prove it, to me thats stupid should just do n see what happens dont try proving what u think cuse then u mess with results attempting to be right

@sven_bender 9 ай бұрын

No one on the crew sounded all that stoked on Roger Clemens though

@morthaug 10 ай бұрын

RIP Grant ❤

@TheEversearcher 2 ай бұрын

Between Adam accidentally smacking with rig with a bat and Grant suction cupping his face, I feel a lot better about the dumb things I do during my day; if people so much smarter than me can goof up like that, there's hope for me yet! lol

@Vanislehunterman 7 ай бұрын

23:05 nothing like a shelf box of delicious 'Putrid Pork'

@joeknowslittle79 8 ай бұрын

A corked bat wasn't for hitting the ball farther, it was first used to keep up with the evolving pitchers. They started throwing faster and some guys needed a lighter bat to swing faster while they adjusted their timing with a regular bat. So they corked some of them, it's lighter and if done right is very hard to catch. The belief it made the ball go farther was easier for people to believe, so that's the story that stuck.

@change_your_oil_regularly4287 6 ай бұрын

closed captions @ 17:23 LOLZ he did what in Colorado?

@Redmenace96 10 ай бұрын

Knocking the hide off is possible with well-used balls, practice balls, near the end of their lifespan. Not with a fresh, new ball with tight stitching.

@marcelmoreau2733 10 ай бұрын

should have brought in a knuckleball pitcher to see how and why it moves the way it does.

@orbyfan 10 ай бұрын

And bring in Bob Uecker to show how to catch it ("Wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.").

@marcelmoreau2733 10 ай бұрын

@@orbyfan or do play by play :"And juuusst a little outside!"

@regadrisn875 10 ай бұрын

Recently I have seen the hide knocked off of a baseball, possible faulty stitching???

@connormcintyre8859 10 ай бұрын

Didn’t love that all the hits on the corked bat myth was always hit off the end of the bat

@justhefacts8358 10 ай бұрын

RIP Grant 😞

@XxxXxx-fm3wo 9 ай бұрын

This episode of Mythbusters we're going to discover if we can shove a baseball bat up our..........😂

@joecorbiere2646 10 ай бұрын

interesting about the baseball not being able to rise ............. yet a softball fastpitch pitcher can make the ball both rise or drop ................. of course there are different mechanics in the throw and the size of the ball .......rising in softballs is more "natural" b/c of the throwing motion ........... however, the softball dropping is of course due to wrist twist ........... and the softballs can be thrown in the 80's ............

@sven_bender 9 ай бұрын

0:30 My sides are in orbit

@shicrapt 7 ай бұрын

So how come they still use corked bats in home run derby and hitting the balls much, much farther? I think Mythbusters did not properly cork the bat, hence less distance.

@TheSoloTalent 5 ай бұрын

38:30 i think the slide is not how fast u are, but how quick u gonna stop and stay on the mark

@badad0166 9 ай бұрын

18:47 Air cannon (paintball on steroids) into 45 degree steel plate. But that might work, which would be bad TV. 😄 Anyway, I'm smart, right?

@00Pottus00 10 ай бұрын

Perhaps the corked bat is used just as intended from the results and it might make sense. When the players see the batter swinging hard they might think the ball was hit harder than it actually was throwing them off. So perhaps the myth is just a myth behind the real myth!

@jumpman8282 10 ай бұрын

It's an interesting thought. Then again, professional baseball players have a reaction time that is almost inhuman, so I think that if there is anything to gain from playing with a corked bat it must be marginal at best, especially with the ball only traveling at half speed.

@paulg6274 10 ай бұрын

Lolol no, that's not a thing whatsoever. They aren't trying to hit the ball softer to "throw the defense off". It just makes the bat head lighter. They messed up this test because the corked bat was being swung just as fast as the heavy bat. And u cant just "use a lighter bat", because you still want the weight of the handle ect

@damirrukovansski3529 29 күн бұрын

The corked bat segment was flawed. Corking a bat turns a typical wood bat from a drop 3 to a drop 5. Done properly, the wood density will not change much. But that difference in bat speed is enough to increase the momentum and thus increase EV and therefore distance. Their main flaw here was having their useless contraption swing both bats at the same speed. Of course swinging the now lighter bat has less momentum and therefore less numbers that the original bat. The Baseball Bat Bros did a couple of great clips on this topic: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iZh1qrxqmK-oY2Q.html

@davidbroughall3782 10 ай бұрын

Ed Sprague 1992 World Series MVP.

@Kickex 10 ай бұрын

Aaah my weekly asmr

@andrewwheeldon3027 10 ай бұрын

Maybe it would have been good to weigh the dry and humid balls. yes it may effect elasticity, but surly a humid ball is heavier than a dry ball too.. Newtonian physics says if the same force is applied and the mass is different, the acceleration is different too! F= MA. cricket would provide some interesting tests... straight seam, swing bowling, spin bowling and then reverse swing. these would all be interesting.. Also players try to "lift the seam" would be interesting to see how much effect that has!

@jumpman8282 10 ай бұрын

I agree that it would be interesting to examine how much of the difference in distance is due to increased elasticity vs increased mass, but for the sake of the myth that distinction is quite irrelevant. As for cricket myths I think they are established enough to even survive an apocalypse.

@ieuanhunt552 10 ай бұрын

@jumpman8282 also mythbusters is American. And Americans don't give a shit about Cricket.

@marcelmoreau2733 10 ай бұрын

they dont really care about it in this testing but they do mention a few times that the humid balls are heavier due to the increased moisture and that it could have an effect.

@reaganching1967 10 ай бұрын

God I miss this show.

@lornekofman2163 9 ай бұрын

if the bored out bat is smoothened inside you het 3x surface tension. and its lighter. So yes its cheeting. and it works.

@davidbroughall3782 10 ай бұрын

Martin Maldonado knocked cover off the ball in a game between the Brewers and the Pirates on April 19, 2014, so I don't need to see the Mythbusters do it.

@rokpodlogar6062 9 ай бұрын

my god this guy is huge.

@allthatlover 9 ай бұрын

an 80mph fastball, come on guys, thats a change up. seriously!

@TheBenNZ 2 ай бұрын

MythBrilliant! 😊

@olafbigandglad 10 ай бұрын

Tee point of corking the bat isn't psychological, for the love of god. The point is to make the bat lighter while maintaining the same bat diameter, and if a bat is lighter you can swing it faster, i.e.generate more bat speed, and bat speed is probably the main factor in hitting the ball farther

@paulg6274 10 ай бұрын

Yes they royally screwed up the cork bat test

@karls8103 9 ай бұрын

y not use a lighter bat not corked

@olafbigandglad 9 ай бұрын

@@karls8103 Because there are only two ways to do that - make the bat a smaller diameter as I pointed out already, or use a lighter wood, but then you would be forced into using softwoods, which would break upon impact with the baseball.

@RitzStarr 10 ай бұрын

It's funny looking back and realizing how scripted and unnatural all the dialogue is. Still a great show, but a bit jarring to never have noticed.

@weybye91 9 ай бұрын

Adam have confirmed it wasn't scripted, but you do you

@Dexcellence 9 ай бұрын

the 2 main Mythbusters also seem more cool and less cringe than I remember

@RicardoReview 9 ай бұрын

It's not scripted but you see the second team with a lot of bits and jokes

@jamesbuckley8917 8 ай бұрын

Jamie hated Adam, so that's interesting to know in retrospect.

@weybye91 8 ай бұрын

@@jamesbuckley8917 if that's true, how comes Jamie never fired Adam while Adam worked for Jamie

@automaticwriting6972 9 ай бұрын

aw man grant.. we miss you, rip.

@jimbo1959 8 ай бұрын

The man they call " Steroid Roger ".

@violentfrog_ 10 ай бұрын

I keep hearing "human balls"

@vornamenachname3373 8 ай бұрын

WOULD YOU GUYS PLEASE STICK TO EITHER IMPERIAL OR METRIC!?!?!?!?!? ( Or both... )

@nomimalone7520 9 ай бұрын

Does anyone know if Roger Clemens was retired or playing when this episode was filmed?

@sven_bender 9 ай бұрын

Clemens retired in 2003 This episode aired in 2007

@nomimalone7520 9 ай бұрын

@@sven_bender thank you, friend!

@anotheryintheroad 9 ай бұрын

should have done the knuckle

@yourfamilydocter 9 ай бұрын

Hayley Williams is such a talented tv presenter

@WEIMERANERZ 7 ай бұрын

But he only swung the normal non corked bat and measured that speed, he did not measure corked bat speed and because its lighter then surely he could have swung it faster and.........f=ma.....so the faster lighter bat could have had more force than the slower heavier bat, depending on the measurements of course....am i missing something!?

@XxxXxx-fm3wo 9 ай бұрын

I like the part where they did the math about the 80 mph down with Bubba blah and then 60 miles of The swinging of the bat blah blah blah and then they brought a a whole different point about not connecting at the same time which house it's nothing to do with the two combined speeds. And this matter of fact the higher the number 80 mph would be the impact speed and not the two combined.

@albertlwj 10 ай бұрын

"30 dry balls and 30 human balls" hmmm....

@jamesbuckley8917 8 ай бұрын

Should have seen if Clemens threw faster on or off steroids.

@JPBelanger 10 ай бұрын

Should have gotten Maddux :-)

@torontorox 10 ай бұрын

#RogerClemens 💙

@torontorox 10 ай бұрын

more homers in the rockies because of less atmospheric resistance

@darkracer1252 3 ай бұрын

35:20 who the hell says that? NO it's not faster. people who have a brain don't think it's faster either. but it's alot harder to tap you out with the ball if you are low to the ground then it is when you are straight up running.

@gazvlogs7459 10 ай бұрын

This is NOT S04EP15 this is S05E14 pls correct the title.

@dougellis7917 9 ай бұрын

I disagree with the corked bat conclusion. It's physics; m1*v1 = m2*v2. With a corked bat, the velocity of the bat increases with a small decrease in the mass of the bat. The net effect is an increase in velocity of the baseball leaving the bat. That's why golfers use titanium drivers.

@karls8103 9 ай бұрын

y not use a lighter bat then .. same result its should have. but it wont ok using a full steel hamer vrs a mallet full of sand or beads both heavy yet metal dents n the rubber mallet n sand don't its suould if both are as heavy y cuse 1is soft other more solid

@nickthefox72 9 ай бұрын

A great British game (legit,invented in the UK) but not as good as cricket

@XxxXxx-fm3wo 9 ай бұрын

...and I realize the only reason I ever watch this TV show and still do watch these vids is Kerri and her perfect t!t$...Thank-you Discovery Channel ;)

@shuyviu 10 ай бұрын

This was great. BTW: Put Roger Clemens (and Barry Bonds and Mark McGuire - don't care about singles hitter Pete Rose - in the HOF).

@user-vq7xd4fd3p 9 ай бұрын

Makes you fall asleep , BOARING

@gordonwhitney6052 8 ай бұрын

I love Mythbusters, but the methodology for testing the knocking the cover off the ball myth was stupid. Nobody with a working brain expects a batter to knock the cover off a brand new ball by hitting it once, no matter how hard. It does happen - to old, worn baseballs in sandlot games. Or, extremely rarely (like 3 or 4 times a decade across MLB), in pro games, where something like a tiny unnoticed splinter in a bat can combine with the spin of a pitch to slice a cut in the cover of the ball, which allows the core of the ball to work its way loose.

@kyartick8502 10 ай бұрын

Im not a fan of teams making their balls humid. Which such a dramatic change its unfair to compare players in different eras. Baseballs has always been pure. Wooden bad swung by man vs leather wrapped ball thrown by man. With humid balls youre especially guaranteeing old records cant ever be beat

@karls8103 9 ай бұрын

from wat i understand is both teams bat so team1 gets normal balls fresh, then team 2 steps up n the balls are now have had time to absorb moisture n thus difrent, so is there already the same from start to fin then its fair to both teams if i understand correctly

@mosesbuddhajesus3362 10 ай бұрын

Really bad test with the corked bat. They start of by saying that they dont want to show how to cork a bat, because MLB forbids it, then they do a bad test, and say that a corked bat is worse. If its worse, why would MLB ban them? This made me not trust the results of mythbusters, and to be honest, its a friggin TV show, not an actual study. Mythbusters are a myth that is busted to be not true lol. If you want to know if it actually matters, search for the Baseball Bat Bros video on corking and youll see that a corked bat is working for sure.

@valiant971 10 ай бұрын

Corked bats are lighter so you can swing them faster. It isn't about the springyness, it's about bat speed.

@marcelmoreau2733 10 ай бұрын

and machismo/male ego. atually using a lighter bat especially up to recent times was seen as the player being weak and less of a 'man'. corking the bat lightens it while maintaining the appearance of a heavier weighted bat.

@paulg6274 10 ай бұрын

@@marcelmoreau2733 lol it has nothing to do with ego. a heavier bat makes the ball go further but if u make it lighter in the right spot (the barell) is increases swing speed but maintains its stuctural integrity

@marcelmoreau2733 10 ай бұрын

@@paulg6274 there IS an element of ego involved. by corking a bat you reduce actual weight but every one thinks you are swinging at marked weight. so with lighter weight, you swing faster. people watching you swing a 44ounce marked bat like they swing a 32ounce, think that you are even stronger then you are. that is boost to YOUR ego while also increase intimidation factor as people think you will hit ball harder as you are swinging a 'heavier' bat harder then they swing their lighter weighted bat.

@paulg6274 10 ай бұрын

@@marcelmoreau2733 lol man u have no clue what ur talking about. Firstly no one swings 44 oz bats. Players use the weight of bat that they like to hit with, they don't have some small d*ck complex that makes them use heavier bats even though they hit worse. And defenders positon hitters based on their spray charts, not how heavy their bats are.

@marcelmoreau2733 10 ай бұрын

i was using 44 as an example. modern bats are made of different woods then traditional bats and yes, in the mlb and other leagues up until 2000s, there were players using 44ounce bats. and prior to over analytical nonsense that takes place now, players did play based on tendencies and reputations of other players. if it was known a player was considered a power hitter, and used a heavier bat to have more impact on a hit, then they positioned themselves deeper in the field. corking the bat allowed for a faster swing, but softened the contact, as shown in the episode which reduced how far ball travelled, allowing for hits to drop in front of fielders that were playing deep. a side effect as theory was cork was acting as a spring t launch ball further, but episode prove this not to be the case.@@paulg6274

@cruzreedcuber1794 7 ай бұрын

These guys know so little about baseball it hurts to watch

@tedmccauley9319 10 ай бұрын

The bigger ball in fasrball makes it possible to throw a riseball. It is very popular and very hard to hit, thus fastball has more strikeouts than hardball.

@DueySR 9 ай бұрын

Like most of the myths tested in this video, they missed the point of the rising fastball. It's not about literally rising, it's about putting a lot of backspin on the ball so it drops _less than expected,_ giving the appearance that it's rising. "Rising fastball" is a misnomer but people don't actually think it's rising..

@NickTimmer 10 ай бұрын

480P in 2023 🤣🤣

@leothompson2777 10 ай бұрын

Wasn't filmed in 2023 though, was it? Upscale it yourself, it's 2023 after all, or quit bitchin'

@craigparkinson2844 9 ай бұрын

7 Matches" It is baseball not tennis or soccer! You lost all credibility already at the start!

@GuyDudeman 8 ай бұрын

So it's scientifically proven now that baseball is boring

@StoicWhiz 9 ай бұрын

I forgot how badly scripted And acted A lot of the show is When they're not doing experiments

@carstenkh 10 ай бұрын

Teams are trying to win, by having balls in different invoriments - = EVERYONE WANTS TO CHEAT - wow, what a great game - cheaters all of them

@paulg6274 10 ай бұрын

Its not cheating, it was something implemented by the league for all games in Colorado and now Arizona also. Both teams are affected equally and everyone is aware of it