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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Thursday, January 19, 2012The Economist: Whirling DarvishWill Yu be the next Dice-K?
David Concepcion de la Desviacion Estandar (Dan R)
Posted: January 19, 2012 at 12:57 PM | 31 comment(s)
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1. You can keep your massive haul Posted: January 19, 2012 at 01:12 PM (#4040307)I thought humidity worked the other way around.
Homeruns go up in the summer because of heat and humidity. What hurts flyballs are the cold, dry air of the spring and fall.
Good Luck to Mr. Darvish. Ready to join the long list of Iranian-Japanese heros in Texas. Let's hope we're not bombing his grandparents any time.
Yep. Less dense => less friction.
Factors that lead to lower air density are higher temps, higher elevation, and higher humidity. Of those three, humidity is generally the least significant.
It's Hurling Darvish.
They put the balls in the humidor, to make them heavier (and easier for pitchers to grip?) and harder to hit far. I think.
Unless they have put the entire stadium in a humidor, in which case, you are correct and I am confused about how the humidor works.
I see what you did there. Half-japanese pitchers, do it to me every time.
+1
This and also I believe they said when the balls dry out the laces aren't raised as much, which leads to breaking balls not breaking.
Just like Mark Prior!
Not to pick on you, but I thought durability and height (taller=better, short=inferior) for pitchers was an old saw that has been around for decades in baseball? The ground ball correlation with tall pitchers does seem to be a concept created a bit more recently, but just as entrenched.
Maybe the tall durability factor has to do with more distance for the arm to decelerate and less angular velocity in the shoulder. (That or it looks like the little guy is trying harder)
And lower atmospheric pressure. A .01 change in the mercury (say, going from 29.92 inches to 29.91 is the equivalent of going up 10 feet in elevation). So, the difference between a really high pressure day, say 30.40 inches, to a really low pressure day, say 29.60 inches, is like moving 800 feet in elevation.
Like Chad Bradford! LOL
It makes perfect sense, assuming everybody is throwing essentially overhand. It seems, though, like many/most tall guys whip it from the side - that creates tail, I guess, but it seems like giving away an inherent advantage.
If they ever make Chin-lung Hu a catcher it would be the Yu-Hu battery.
Too soon?
No. Hu is the new leder of China
Naturally!
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