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Posted by: Brett Hraban (bwh24@drexel.edu) on Sun Apr 21 19:05:43 2002

My name is Brett Hraban. I am currently an pitcher for drexel university and I was hoping you could help me out with a problem that I have. I have been searching the web and have been unable as yet to find an answer to my problem. My pitching coach and I made a bet today. He was telling me that a certain player on our team has a bat velocity(how fast he swings the bat)of 101 mph. I told him there is no way. I said frankly that he was mistaken and that that would be the exit velocity of the ball off the bat. However, he says since the ball speed was measured from a stationary ball off of a tee, then the speed that the bat is swung at is the speed of the ball off the bat. If you swing at all ball on a tee with an aluminum bat, would not the exit velocity be greater the the speed at which the bat is swung. And unless I am mistaken isn't the avg. swing velocity for a college player around upper 80's or 90mph and would be unreasonable to be so high? Thanks for any help you can give me.

Sincerely,

Brett Hraban
Drexel Baseball Player

Followups:

Re: Question of Bat Velocity vs. Exit Velocity
Benjamin Ferrell [ Thu May 5 11:22:04 2005 ]
- Re: Re: Question of Bat Velocity vs. Exit Velocity Ronny [ Wed May 11 09:32:00 2005 ]
- Re: Re: Question of Bat Velocity vs. Exit Velocity Mike Myers [ Fri May 6 11:21:52 2005 ]
- Re: Re: Question of Bat Velocity vs. Exit Velocity
  JJA [ Thu May 5 14:10:38 2005 ]
  - Re: Re: Re: Question of Bat Velocity vs. Exit Velocity BHL [ Thu May 5 16:34:17 2005 ]

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> My name is Brett Hraban.  I am currently an pitcher for drexel university and I was hoping you could help me out with a problem that I have.  I have been searching the web and have been unable as yet to find an answer to my problem.  My pitching coach and I made a bet today.  He was telling me that a certain player on our team has a bat velocity(how fast he swings the bat)of 101 mph.  I told him there is no way.  I said frankly that he was mistaken and that that would be the exit velocity of the ball off the bat.  However, he says since the ball speed was measured from a stationary ball off of a tee, then the speed that the bat is swung at is the speed of the ball off the bat.  If you swing at all ball on a tee with an aluminum bat, would not the exit velocity be greater the the speed at which the bat is swung.  And unless I am mistaken isn't the avg. swing velocity for a college player around upper 80's or 90mph and would be unreasonable to be so high?  Thanks for any help you can give me.
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> Sincerely,
> 
> Brett Hraban
> Drexel Baseball Player

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