I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher
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Very hot take thinking your 7th grade babe Ruth league baseball experience would translate in the box against an MLB pitcher. Considering you didn’t play high school ball let alone college ball, I would bet that you couldn’t hit a guy throwing 85 mph let alone 95mph. It’s not a pitching machine they aren’t throwing straight fastballs in the wheelhouse every pitch
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I played at a high level, been out of the game for 8 years, and I don't think for a second I could get a hit off a big league arm in 20 ABs.
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Not a knock on you as Im sure you are a fine athlete but hitting at the MLB level is not easy. MLB pitchers got there because they throw hard AND have movement on every pitch. Go to a batting cage and have them turn it up to 90mph and see what you can do. Then factor in that MLB pitchers throw faster than that and non of their pitches are straight. Once you have the timing of the fastball down they throw a change up and you look foolish. Also throw in the fact that you are using a wooden bat. You have to have the strength to swing through a 95 mph fastball if you square it up. Again, go to a cage and try a wooden bat, completely different than swing one of those 28 oz ceramic bats. Yeah as you have pointed out you could get lucky and run into one. But odds are if you indeed see 100 pitches I would bet you would make contact on less than 5 and 4 of those will be foul tips.
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You do realize that there are literal professionals... Who have dedicated their entire lives to hitting a baseball... Who go on 0-20 streaks all the time right? Then there is you... Who had a sick hit off of Bobby in 7th grade and watched a Youtube video. And you're somehow gonna rope one in the gap?
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@kdclemson_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
@genopolanco_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
@kdclemson_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
@genopolanco_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
@kdclemson_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
@genopolanco_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
You’re wrong. I hadn’t played baseball since high school and joined an adult league at age 27. I had to relearn just about everything. Fielding came back relatively quickly.. hitting is a whole different story. If you haven’t even seen high school pitching, I doubt you even touch a single pitch. Have you even used a wood bat?
Watch the video, it doesn't look too fast, if I get 20 ABs I can just sit fastball and take a swing in the zone, that's probably 100 pitches so statistically I should connect with one and find a hole I feel like.
Bro... It’s a lot harder than you think haha. I don’t think you’d get a hit in 20 ABs against a Single A pitcher. Unless you played high level baseball into your 20s, you aren’t touching a thing without a ton of training and practice.
The worst hitting pitcher ever had about a .045 OBP in the MLB. Most pitcher only players still take BP and stuff so that’s not surprising, but that goes out the window since this is the worst hitting pitcher ever, in all likelihood, I can hit better than the worst hitting pitcher ever, and being an 18 yo male with a decent build, I think I could.
I think you’re underestimating how difficult it is to hit a baseball. Especially live pitching. And then you’re going to do this against someone who has trained their whole life to play baseball professionally and was good enough to make it into the MLB? Not to mention the highest level of ball you’ve played is middle school? Come on dude haha. Do you have any idea how good you have to be to even sniff the Majors?
I am talking about the worst hitter EVER in the MLB. In all likelihood I am a better hitter than him. It’s nothing against the pitchers, but they aren’t untouchable, in 20 ABs you could probably guess and swing early to find a hole somewhere in there.
If you stopped playing baseball in middle school I can guarantee worst mlb hitter of all time is 1000x better at hitting than you
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My man just wanted the baseball community to believe in him and end up getting flamed again lmao
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@lord_blumpkin35 said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
confused as in your definition of hit the ball, as in I made contact and hit it, or I got a hit. sure if you have your bat propped in the middle and pay the pticher to throw at it yeah youll hit it. otherwise if youre swinging based on your middle school self and a youtube video, can I makee a bet on you not contacting the ball going 92 plus. I played division one baseball and im not confidently stepping into any at bat years ( a few) later at anything above 85.
I meant to actually try and get a base hit with an average defense
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@nanthrax_1_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
@tacocat410_xbl said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
A high school freshman Josh Hader struck me out when I was a senior. He was unhittable in high school.
Was this when he was making highly questionable tweets?
I mean song lyrics, but no, that was later I think. We went to different schools so I didn’t know him personally to know if he was like racist or not
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@riican_2_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
@kdclemson_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
@genopolanco_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
@kdclemson_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
@genopolanco_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
@kdclemson_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
@genopolanco_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
You’re wrong. I hadn’t played baseball since high school and joined an adult league at age 27. I had to relearn just about everything. Fielding came back relatively quickly.. hitting is a whole different story. If you haven’t even seen high school pitching, I doubt you even touch a single pitch. Have you even used a wood bat?
Watch the video, it doesn't look too fast, if I get 20 ABs I can just sit fastball and take a swing in the zone, that's probably 100 pitches so statistically I should connect with one and find a hole I feel like.
Bro... It’s a lot harder than you think haha. I don’t think you’d get a hit in 20 ABs against a Single A pitcher. Unless you played high level baseball into your 20s, you aren’t touching a thing without a ton of training and practice.
The worst hitting pitcher ever had about a .045 OBP in the MLB. Most pitcher only players still take BP and stuff so that’s not surprising, but that goes out the window since this is the worst hitting pitcher ever, in all likelihood, I can hit better than the worst hitting pitcher ever, and being an 18 yo male with a decent build, I think I could.
I think you’re underestimating how difficult it is to hit a baseball. Especially live pitching. And then you’re going to do this against someone who has trained their whole life to play baseball professionally and was good enough to make it into the MLB? Not to mention the highest level of ball you’ve played is middle school? Come on dude haha. Do you have any idea how good you have to be to even sniff the Majors?
I am talking about the worst hitter EVER in the MLB. In all likelihood I am a better hitter than him. It’s nothing against the pitchers, but they aren’t untouchable, in 20 ABs you could probably guess and swing early to find a hole somewhere in there.
If you stopped playing baseball in middle school I can guarantee worst mlb hitter of all time is 1000x better at hitting than you
The worst hitting pitcher probably also stopped hitting in middle school
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If it is consistently the same speed in same location with no worry of a breaking ball, maybe in 20 ABs, which is like what 60 pitches, since every pitch is a strike, then yes you probably could. But it's not the same as getting a hit off a MLB pitcher who is trying to fool you.
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@kdclemson_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
So I stumbled across this YouTube video of MLB pitches from a batter's POV and it made me realize, "This doesn't look that hard to hit." The pitches don't seem that fast, I think I could hit these.
I haven't played baseball since middle school, but I'm a young adult in pretty good physical condition. I believe I'm getting a hit in 20 ABs versus an average MLB pitcher and defense. I said this in a group chat and basically got flamed, but I'm pretty sure I'm right here.
I did get hits off mlb pitchers. Steve woodard played at hartselle high school and I was 4 for 4 vs him. I also got hits off a couple minor league prospects.
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this has to be a joke. there's absolutely no way this isn't a joke. @KDClemson_PSN please tell me you're joking
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@nflman2033_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
If it is consistently the same speed in same location with no worry of a breaking ball, maybe in 20 ABs, which is like what 60 pitches, since every pitch is a strike, then yes you probably could. But it's not the same as getting a hit off a MLB pitcher who is trying to fool you.
Agree to disagree I guess, I’ll just sit fastball and adjust to the offspeed, feel like I have enough ABs to turn around on one
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@brrxdy_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
this has to be a joke. there's absolutely no way this isn't a joke. @KDClemson_PSN please tell me you're joking
I’d bet most people here could maybe
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@kdclemson_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
@brrxdy_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
this has to be a joke. there's absolutely no way this isn't a joke. @KDClemson_PSN please tell me you're joking
I’d bet most people here could maybe
I'd bet some biological parts and every penny I have to my name that you couldn't get a hit off of me, let alone a MLB pitcher. Coming from a former college player, you are DRASTICALLY underestimating how hard hitting a baseball is
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The pitcher throws one 90+ piece of chin music at him and he would go running home.
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When I was in juco ball we played the Cubs AA team in an exhibition. We finished third that year in juco with 4 draft picks and over 15 guys signed to other schools. We got no hit. Good luck
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@tacocat410_xbl said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
@nanthrax_1_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
@tacocat410_xbl said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
A high school freshman Josh Hader struck me out when I was a senior. He was unhittable in high school.
Was this when he was making highly questionable tweets?
I mean song lyrics, but no, that was later I think. We went to different schools so I didn’t know him personally to know if he was like racist or not
Just curious, where did you go to high school? My cousin went to Old Mill (long before Josh Hader went there) and lived in Millersville, MD.
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@kdclemson_psn said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
@lord_blumpkin35 said in I could get a hit off of an MLB pitcher:
confused as in your definition of hit the ball, as in I made contact and hit it, or I got a hit. sure if you have your bat propped in the middle and pay the pticher to throw at it yeah youll hit it. otherwise if youre swinging based on your middle school self and a youtube video, can I makee a bet on you not contacting the ball going 92 plus. I played division one baseball and im not confidently stepping into any at bat years ( a few) later at anything above 85.
I meant to actually try and get a base hit with an average defense
There is zero chance with a wood bat and a defense behind the pitcher you make solid enough contact to rope out a base hit. Unless you somehow make weak contact and you hit a perfect swinging bunt down the line and run it out. Sure you might tip a few pitches but you are over estimating your abilities and grossly underestimating how hard it is to hit in MLB which is by far the hardest thing to do in professional sports.
