@MaxHarvest said in Ball speeds and different pitchers:
So I’m not sure exactly how this works, but I have noticed that certain pitchers the ball just explodes from their hand and appears much faster than other people with faster FB’s. For instance I just faced Blake snell and I could not catch up to his 93-96 mph fastball, it was like it got released and was past me, I could not time it up. Even when I knew when and where it was going I would be so late I missed it entirely or just barely fouled it off.
I don’t have trouble hitting fastballs, I hunt them so I couldn’t make sense of it. I thought the delivery, but time from release, to time to swing there was just less of a window than other pitchers, it wasn’t the delivery. He brought in lee smith and then Nolan Ryan in relief as he thought I could not catch up to fastball and was throwing 100-101 with both of them. I was getting perfect/perfect and ended up coming back to win the game.
How is 93-97 from snell faster than 100 from smith and Ryan? Anyone experience this
Is it just me though or does Snell release looks super glitched out. It takes me 3 innings just to figure out the arm angle.