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Oct 1 2016 09:04am
Quote (revis @ Oct 1 2016 09:17am)
Has to be one of the dumbest posts I've seen in a while


Because clearly the incredible spike in HR's and the record shattering of homeruns hit in a season is not something to talk about or discuss.

You must be blinded.



This should be enough to tell you that something was done to baseballs this year.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/09/ball-bounces-mike-napoli-ground-rule-double-what

The ball is definitely juiced/altered with; never seen a baseball do that.

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Oct 1 2016 09:14am
There is an article on espn about this. I doubt it tho. I will go with the increase in mlb fastball velocity and the fact that no one cares if you K anymore.
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Oct 1 2016 09:19am
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There is an article on espn about this. I doubt it tho. I will go with the increase in mlb fastball velocity and the fact that no one cares if you K anymore.


Link? Would love to read it and can't seem to find it on the mlb homepage.

I still think something had to be done to baseballs this year; the list of players just shattering there previous home run career highs is astronomical. The total number of players slugging over .500 this year has now doubled from last year.. like really? cmon.

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Oct 1 2016 09:29am
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Link? Would love to read it and can't seem to find it on the mlb homepage.

I still think something had to be done to baseballs this year; the list of players just shattering there previous home run career highs is astronomical. The total number of players slugging over .500 this year has now doubled from last year.. like really? cmon.


was on phone...

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/17109063/the-mlb-home-run-explosion-2016-juiced-baseballs-blame
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Oct 1 2016 09:36am
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Ah that's an older article but it didn't change much the 2nd half either; still believe something was done to the baseballs. This year has just been way too different than previous couple years.

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Oct 1 2016 10:29am
FiveThirtyEight thinks they're probably juiced too, great article (they don't have definite proof but their is strong evidence):

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But although our results are suggestive, they’re not conclusive. To make a more compelling case, we’d need to conduct additional lab tests and start doing dissections, although those might also leave us looking for answers. (We’re unlikely to slice open a baseball and find a Super Ball inside.) According to one hitter we spoke to, who’s played in both the majors and Triple-A since the homer explosion started, the juiced-ball theory “seems to make sense and there is no doubt in my mind that there is a difference in the balls [between Triple-A and the majors]. I just wouldn’t want to get so tunnel vision about the balls [that] we could be missing a bigger issue.”

He’s right to reserve judgment; one thing we’ve learned from this mystery is that even when armed with big data, we can’t declare every case closed. But the deeper we dig into baseball’s record home run rate, the harder it is to believe that it doesn’t have something to do with the ball.



http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/are-juiced-balls-the-new-steroids/

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Oct 1 2016 10:47am
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FiveThirtyEight thinks they're probably juiced too, great article (they don't have definite proof but their is strong evidence):



http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/are-juiced-balls-the-new-steroids/


That article fits perfectly with the link I posted about the Mike Napoli "ground rule double" bouncing over that wall; ball has to be juiced.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/09/ball-bounces-mike-napoli-ground-rule-double-what

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We knew there was no change to the strike zone, and we even adjusted for warmer weather, an influx of young power hitters and the Reds’ pitching staff (yes, it was terrible in 2015 too). We still found that exit velocities were higher than they “should” have been based on previous performance, and that roughly 30 percent more home runs had been hit than expected.

So we bought a dozen official “Bud Selig”-branded balls from 2014 and a dozen “Rob Manfred”-branded balls from the second half of 2015, and we sent them to the Sports Science Laboratory at Washington State University. There, they were fired from a high-speed air cannon at a steel plate so that their coefficient of restitution — basically, their bounciness — could be measured precisely. But “Steel-Plategate” didn’t catch on: while the tests did detect a small increase in bounciness, variation between individual balls was so high that the overall change wasn’t statistically significant.


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That article fits perfectly with the link I posted about the Mike Napoli "ground rule double" bouncing over that wall; ball has to be juiced.

[URL=http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/09/ball-bounces-mike-napoli-ground-rule-double-what]http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/09/ball-bounces-mike-napoli-ground-rule-double-what[/URL]


holy fuck i haven't seen that video til now, doesn't even look real! haha. balls gotta be juiced
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Oct 1 2016 02:26pm
Quote (Schwarber @ Sep 30 2016 08:01pm)
Homeruns are at ridiculous rate this year.

Players who have barely hit 10 are now all of a sudden hitting 20+ and are crushing their previous season high's..

Examples:
Altuve
Kipnis
Forsythe
Starlin Castro
Cano
Murphy
Sanchez

among just about everyone else in baseball.

Thoughts?


Lol, I think it has more to do with the strike out rate and angle of swings.

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Oct 1 2016 06:01pm
Already known that the ball in the minors is different than the ball is the majors
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