What is Vertical Approach Angle For Pitchers? | Advanced Pitching Concepts

People who have been around the game for a long time are very good at identifying deception or other outlier qualities. From a data standpoint sometimes it’s hard to quantify deception or understand why an “average” pitch (based on movement, velocity, location) is over-exceeding expectations. Vertical approach angle is oftentimes one of the underlying reasons for that success.
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[@briantalksbaseball127]

do you know how to calculate it outside of a Rapsodo?

[@josephmannix5120]

Just about to look this up but scrolled down and imeadiatly saw this

[@mojokooistra7056]

Question: can a fastball actually level out or even rise as it’s about to cross the plate? Or is that just an illusion? Found conflicting information online

[@vancewinters9808]

No I think it physically impossible maybe level out but I don't think that's possible either

[@cajholt4016]

It’s possible only from a submarine release point. The only guys in the league that can legitimately make the ball rise are Tyler Rogers and Adam Cimber

[@tylerbeckley5452]

No fastball thrown over the top actually rises. What’s actually happening is that the spinning ball can generate forces that oppose the force due to gravity, causing the ball to fall less than the brain expects it to over the course of 60 feet. This disparity gives the illusion that the ball is rising.

[@fazec0ld802]

A baseball obviously can’t “rise” as it’s being thrown effectively downhill off of a pitchers’ mound, duh, but pitchers can 100% put backspin on a ball to counteract gravity enough to level it out on its path from mound to plate, creating a (very convincing) illusion that it’s rising; and it basically is rising from the trajectory that it would typically have.

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