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Thanks, Stoeten, for the off season content.

About Vlad and spin, a year after the Sarris interview you excerpted, Dr Nathan published the results of a study demonstrating that baseball sidespin did take away from flyball distance. So no need to speculate that baseball is a game of millimeters or that it’s hard. It’s now proven by science!

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/contributions-to-variation-in-fly-ball-distances/

Just a down year. It’ll work out. I hope. Sigh. Would winter feel shorter and less bleak if we’d won? I’d certainly like to give it a try. For science.

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Great catch. Thanks man.

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No worries. Dr Nathan’s work doesn’t get enough attention so like to steer people his way whenever I can. The real fun is his conference papers and research he publishes on his website. Can even play with his Trajectory Calculator

http://baseball.physics.illinois.edu/trajectory-calculator-new3D.html

In addition to stuff like sidespin, you can specify atmospheric conditions to calculate an estimate batted distance. Nerd heaven.

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