Sentences with phrase «more bat speed»
«They have more bat speed now,» Johnson says.
https://www.si.com/ Not exact matches
Blackmon — great hitter with now more RBI potential — perfect slot for him at # 3 Arenado — he is the no brainer # 4 hitter on this team CarGo — # 5 suits his hitting style perfectly Iannetta — good plate discipline and works the count — plus has power — nice # 6 option Parra — fits nice at # 7 or # 8 Desmond — puts a speed / pop bat towards the end of the line up — either # 7 or # 8
What was going to happen when an injury temporarily sapped Puig's bat speed, or when his frame filled out even more with age and he got less mobile, or when pitchers re-re-re-adjusted to his re-re-adjustments of how to pitch him?
You can't teach that, any more than you can teach bat speed.»
When Buggs took the bat out for a few swings, he noticed that the ball went further; the loss of weight and even thinner wall provided both quicker bat speed and more powerful trampolining effect.
More importantly, it afforded batters the ability to produce ball exit speeds between 100 and 103 miles per hour, roughly 10 mph quicker than possible with most aluminum bats, which was already roughly 10 percent quicker than a wood bat.
At higher wind speeds, the bats tilted their wings up and flapped more vertically [click to watch a brief video of a bat flapping its wings].
Professional baseball players agree that rotation increases bat speed, and pro golfers agree that rotation creates more club speed, resulting in harder baseball hits and longer tee shots.
«Most bats were killed during low wind conditions, and we know bats are more active during low wind speeds,» says Bat Conservation International biologist Cris Hein.
Research is also investigating new ways to minimize impacts, such as identifying the wind speeds at which turbines can generate power with minimal impact on bats, the use of devices to deter bats from coming close to a turbine, and whether certain turbine colours are more effective in keeping bats away.
Prof. Robert Barclay, who led the University of Calagary study, commented «Biologically, this makes sense as bats are more likely to fly when wind speeds are relatively low.»