eokerholm
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stays on target. Not wild.A fastball that "stays on plane" doesn't sound like a good thing to me. Leads me to believe I must not know what that means. Can someone explain to me what that means.
Thx
stays on target. Not wild.A fastball that "stays on plane" doesn't sound like a good thing to me. Leads me to believe I must not know what that means. Can someone explain to me what that means.
Thx
Has anyone seen a good summary of how our returning players performed in their respective summer leagues?
Stays on plane, in this context, means that it doesn't sink from gravitational forces as much as would be expected. It usually means that it has good spin resulting in more "lift" if you will. The result of staying on plane is that it gives the pitch the illusion to the hitter that it is rising, causing a lot of swing and misses from swinging under the pitch, and also causing the hitter to chase pitches out of the strike zone high more than normal. A prime example of this at the MLB level is the comparison between Spencer Strider's fastball and Hunter Greene's fastball. Greene actually throws harder (or did before his shoulder issues of the last few weeks), but hitters time his and are able to mash against it, whereas Strider usually gets a lot of swing and misses.A fastball that "stays on plane" doesn't sound like a good thing to me. Leads me to believe I must not know what that means. Can someone explain to me what that means.
Thx
great response ..... thanks for the enlightenment. Wonder what else I don't know, LOL.Stays on plane, in this context, means that it doesn't sink from gravitational forces as much as would be expected. It usually means that it has good spin resulting in more "lift" if you will. The result of staying on plane is that it gives the pitch the illusion to the hitter that it is rising, causing a lot of swing and misses from swinging under the pitch, and also causing the hitter to chase pitches out of the strike zone high more than normal. A prime example of this at the MLB level is the comparison between Spencer Strider's fastball and Hunter Greene's fastball. Greene actually throws harder (or did before his shoulder issues of the last few weeks), but hitters time his and are able to mash against it, whereas Strider usually gets a lot of swing and misses.
He certainly did. Congratulations!Christian had a great summer of work for Lonestar Baseball in the Centex Collegiate League (part of National Baseball Congress www.nbcbaseball.com).
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I shared links with Beesball to get the NEBL stats for Logan, Aeden, Cody and Cam. Aren't Jett and Tyler there too?
New England Collegiate Baseball League | Pointstreak Stats
necbl.wttbaseball.pointstreak.com
Great to see Dalton is back in action.
Let's assume this was a summer game (thread integrity).
On the way home, here's the breakdown of what these players said following the game to mom/dad:
50% - "I just LOVE baseball"
20% - "I preferred a chocolate over vanilla milkshake"
10% - "The umps sucked...again"
10% - "We just gotta bunt more"
10% - "When can I hit the transfer portal"