We are Little League Classic host in 2020

[Just Regular]

It looks like Camden Yards will only have 80 home games this year.

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-game-times-announced-for-2020-season

The fourth Little League Classic presented by GEICO on Sunday, August 23rd, featuring the host Baltimore Orioles and the Red Sox at Historic Bowman Field in Williamsport, PA, home of the Little League World Series (7:10 p.m. ET).

[Moose Milligan]

Great, maybe some of their pitchers can help us.

[Going Underground]

47 minutes ago, OrioleDog said:

It looks like Camden Yards will only have 80 home games this year.

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-game-times-announced-for-2020-season

The fourth Little League Classic presented by GEICO on Sunday, August 23rd, featuring the host Baltimore Orioles and the Red Sox at Historic Bowman Field in Williamsport, PA, home of the Little League World Series (7:10 p.m. ET).

If they play half the games in Williamsport might draw more fans then last year.   

[Legend_Of_Joey]

Wonder how many scouts Elias will send to check out their future draft picks...

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Legend_Of_Joey said:

Wonder how many scouts Elias will send to check out their future draft picks...

He'll probably handle it personally. 

[Frobby]

I don’t understand how Manfred let the Orioles into this game, since he allegedly hates us so much.   

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Frobby said:

I don’t understand how Manfred let the Orioles into this game, since he allegedly hates us so much.   

Took away a home gate.

[scOtt]

I remember this game being announced. Last year? For some reason I was thinking it was in Cooperstown.

[DrungoHazewood]

20 hours ago, Moose Milligan said:

Great, maybe some of their pitchers can help us.

I love absurd theoretical questions:  How close would you have to make the mound so that a good Little League pitcher would be effective against major league batters?  A 95 mph fastball from 60' 6" reaches the plate in about 0.43 seconds.  A 60 mph fastball thrown from 40' reaches the plate in 0.45 seconds.

Little Leaguers presumably don't have the command or breaking stuff of a major leaguer, so you'd have to further compensate for that.  So let's say a 12-year-old throwing from 35' might be about as effective as a major leaguer from a 60' 6" mound.  Definitely need those BP nets in front of our 35' mound to keep death to a minimum.

Then stand that on it's head... how far away would a major league pitcher need to be so Little Leaguers would stand a chance hitting them?  Doing the math, a 95 mph fastball would reach the plate from 71 feet about the same time as a 60 mph fastball from 45 feet. Back that up a little, and our 12-year-olds might stand a chance against MLB pitchers throwing from a 75' or 80' mound.

[Frobby]

1 minute ago, DrungoHazewood said:

I love absurd theoretical questions:  How close would you have to make the mound so that a good Little League pitcher would be effective against major league batters?  A 95 mph fastball from 60' 6" reaches the plate in about 0.43 seconds.  A 60 mph fastball thrown from 40' reaches the plate in 0.45 seconds.

Little Leaguers presumably don't have the command or breaking stuff of a major leaguer, so you'd have to further compensate for that.  So let's say a 12-year-old throwing from 35' might be about as effective as a major leaguer from a 60' 6" mound.  Definitely need those BP nets in front of our 35' mound to keep death to a minimum.

Then stand that on it's head... how far away would a major league pitcher need to be so Little Leaguers would stand a chance hitting them?  Doing the math, a 95 mph fastball would reach the plate from 71 feet about the same time as a 60 mph fastball from 45 feet. Back that up a little, and our 12-year-olds might stand a chance against MLB pitchers throwing from a 75' or 80' mound.

I don’t think time from release is the only factor.   Question is, what is the speed of the ball as it’s crossing home plate?   And by the way, what’s the spin rate on these Little Leaguers?   

[DrungoHazewood]

22 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I don’t think time from release is the only factor.   Question is, what is the speed of the ball as it’s crossing home plate?   And by the way, what’s the spin rate on these Little Leaguers?   

No doubt there are some other factors.  I think a major league fastball loses something like 10 mph on it's journey to the plate, so a ball thrown from closer distances would lose less, further more.  

Knowing how insane some parents can get, I assume someone, somewhere has installed a pitch tracking system at a Little League field so that their kid has a leg up.  Find them and you'll know your spin rates.

Also, prior to 1881 MLB pitchers threw from behind a line that was 45' from the plate.  Essentially that's where their front foot landed, so the pitching distance in today's terms was about 50' away.  They slowly moved it back over a little over a decade because pitchers started being able to throw overhand and offense was disappearing.  But could you imagine any halfway decent 2020 pitcher throwing from 50'?  There would be 23 strikeouts a game.