Bill's Blackboard: What Is Spin Rate?

[@ThekiBoran]

Command of multiple pitches and effectively mixing them is what makes a great pitcher. I say let pitchers use sticky stuff, I don't care for homeruns anyway.

[@nicolaslacombe1979]

I'll be honest...I'm throwing PEARLS.

[@stevenpham1961]

Baseball should have been a class you can take in school for the guys who didn't make the team

[@BloodoperaBlackvomit]

As a newish baseball fan. I love these. Keep em up!!! Very informative

[@iSubliminalMessage]

"educate & promote thinking in a pure baseball sense" This piece perfectly exemplifies why certain stats by themselves cannot make a full narrative. The beauty in baseball is in the complexity of every aspect of a seemingly simple game.

[@seandafny]

OMG I LITERALLY JUST SAID THIS IN ANOTHER COMMENT JUST NOW LOL

[@markconrad9619]

Now I want to see how well a pro can distinguish a pitch just based on spin alone within the same amount of time and distance during a typical pitch. I'm guessing the best hitters are freakishly good at this.

[@jagvike4327]

I know this said what spin rate is, but what it didn't say is how it is useful to a pitcher. I don't understand how a batter is going to be amazingly thrown off by a couple more rotations. I feel like going over that, the way that pitch-rate deceives a batter, would have been better than simply stating guys who have good/bad spin rates.

[@jasonamico4680]

this is what i was thinking

[@cjr1881]

Jagvike432 Spin rate is a completely useless stat on a fastball. It means nothing at all.

[@chrisredfield3607]

Spinning objects in a fluid (air) have curved trajectories. How fast it spins and around what axis determines the vertical and lateral movement of the ball. So they can drop more or cut to the glove side later from closer to the middle of the plate. That's why spin rate matters. It's 1800s aerodynamics. :)

[@SirTylerGolf]

​@@cjr1881LOL sure buddy

[@FiSTofSTEeL112]

Nobody ever claimed pitchers were good because they had a good spin rate...

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[@theresalansberry9027]

I was driving myself nuts just last night trying to find out why it is called a 4 seam fastball. I mean, what the heck, a baseball only has the one seam, right? This video popping up was perfect timing. I thank you, and my children thank you (I am pretty sure they think that having me blather on even once about 4 seam fastballs was one time too many).

[@jarretthoogerhyde6818]

Very informal!!!

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