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Re: Re: Bats

Posted by: () on Thu Oct 3 00:36:31 2002

My question is does a longer or heavier bat produve greater bat speed or make the ball go farther?
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> No they dont.
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>Isn't it true that the longer the bat the greater the torque though? Even though the hitter would have to exert a greater force to swing the longer bat it would produce a greater rotational velocity? In doing so producing more bat speed? Explain please?

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> My question is does a longer or heavier bat produve greater bat speed or make the ball go farther? > > > > No they dont. > > > >Isn't it true that the longer the bat the greater the torque though? Even though the hitter would have to exert a greater force to swing the longer bat it would produce a greater rotational velocity? In doing so producing more bat speed? Explain please?

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