Gunnar Henderson 2022

[Sports Guy]

Who knew Moose contained an inner CoC?

[RZNJ]

Just now, Sports Guy said:

Who knew Moose contained an inner CoC?

That's below the belt.  lol

[Frobby]

2 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

This is getting very geeky very fast.   Physics class was 45 years ago.  I'm getting flashbacks.

We haven’t considered the relative velocity of the earth yet.  Does a 110 EV hit in Florida sound different than one in Boston due to the latitude?   Inquiring minds want to know!

[RZNJ]

5 minutes ago, Frobby said:

We haven’t considered the relative velocity of the earth yet.  Does a 110 EV hit in Florida sound different than one in Boston due to the latitude?   Inquiring minds want to know!

Now you're just showing off!  

[Moose Milligan]

14 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

This is getting very geeky very fast.   Physics class was 45 years ago.  I'm getting flashbacks.

Like this place isn’t geeky to begin with? C’mon. You’re our resident minor league geek who has fits of rage. 
 

Settle down, junior. 

[Moose Milligan]

12 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Who knew Moose contained an inner CoC?

I like being a killjoy from time to time. CoC is just a miserable misanthrope. Big difference. 

[RZNJ]

Just now, Moose Milligan said:

Like this place isn’t geeky to begin with? C’mon. You’re our resident minor league geek who has fits of rage. 
 

Settle down, junior. 

Let he who has never sinned cast the first stone.   The man who said that?   You should have heard the sound off of his bat.

[RZNJ]

1 minute ago, Moose Milligan said:

I like being a killjoy from time to time. CoC is just a miserable misanthrope. Big difference. 

I had an idea but it was fun to look up the definition.  I guess it's more polite to use "misanthrope" than the actual definition.

[deward]

37 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Use your head.  It's the same ball against the same kind of bats, usually made out of maple, maybe hickory.  If ballplayers are swinging at the same speed, it's going to make the same sound.

The variables here are the ballparks, specifically how many people are in the ballpark.  Human beings packed close together absorb sound.  That's why Gunnar's homer sounded so loud last night, it ricocheted off the seats in Fenway.  That's why spring training homers sound so loud, those little stadiums are rarely full and the sound bounces off the seats which are metal and/or plastic.

The other variable is the microphone placement for the TV crews and where they're located.  No one here heard Gunnar's shot last night with their own ears unless you were at the stadium, you heard it through a TV microphone somewhere in Fenway and out through your TV speakers.  The closer that microphone is to the batter's box, the louder it'll be.

I'm sure a guy like Henderson sounds different than Phillips on average because he's bigger and stronger, but no one can tell me that a 110 EV from Stanton and a 110 EV from Phillips hit with the same type of bat on a pitch at the same velocity sounds drastically different.  

That's why Buck O'Neil said what he said about Bo Jackson.  He heard Bo hitting in batting practice, in an empty Royals stadium, the sound rifling off empty seats.  I'm gonna do a @DrungoHazewoodand be a baseball romantic killjoy,  but do we trust a man in his 70s and his memory of what Babe Ruth's bat and Josh Gibson's bat sounded like 50 or 60 years prior?  

No. 

But it makes a great story, it gets people right in their feelers.  Babe Ruth.  Josh Gibson.  Bo Jackson.  Wow.  

But I'm sure if Phil Rizzuto really got a hold of one at one point, it'd sound similar.

I was at the stadium last night, it definitely sounded impressive off the bat, even from up on the RF roof deck; maybe a little louder than Santander's home run earlier in the inning. The place was mostly empty by that point though, so plenty of room to echo. Mullins home run, with the stadium half full, didn't sound as impressive.

[webbrick2010]

36 minutes ago, Frobby said:

We haven’t considered the relative velocity of the earth yet.  Does a 110 EV hit in Florida sound different than one in Boston due to the latitude?   Inquiring minds want to know!

And is the force vector in the same direction of the rotation of the earth or opposite, or something in between

Perhaps a West bound HR, sounds different than an East bound HR.

Also since sound it propagated by air, the direction of the wind relative to the observer (fan) needs to be accounted for.

[Moose Milligan]

29 minutes ago, webbrick2010 said:

And is the force vector in the same direction of the rotation of the earth or opposite, or something in between

Perhaps a West bound HR, sounds different than an East bound HR.

Also since sound it propagated by air, the direction of the wind relative to the observer (fan) needs to be accounted for.

You're here and not trashing everything the Orioles do?  Wow.  Maybe we should delve into science more often.

[RZNJ]

15 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

You're here and not trashing everything the Orioles do?  Wow.  Maybe we should delve into science more often.

Wow!  You're taking down everyone.   I like it.  You already did me, so keep going!

[Moose Milligan]

1 minute ago, RZNJ said:

Wow!  You're taking down everyone.   I like it.  You already did me, so keep going!

You're not much of a challenge there, Reezy.  

[RZNJ]

Just now, Moose Milligan said:

You're not much of a challenge there, Reezy.  

You already got me!   Didn't you ever hear of double jeapardy?   

[Just Regular]

2 hours ago, deward said:

I was at the stadium last night, it definitely sounded impressive off the bat, even from up on the RF roof deck; maybe a little louder than Santander's home run earlier in the inning. The place was mostly empty by that point though, so plenty of room to echo. Mullins home run, with the stadium half full, didn't sound as impressive.

Same here too, was in third base line.

Here's the part that for me was crazy brilliant whatever the decibels were.    

The man walked three times and Batted Ball 1 became a dead center HR >110 EV.    The pitching on both sides was worn down AAAA, but that was still an impressive feat.

The basic bookends of the '22 Henderson supernova for me have been homering off Daniel Espino after he struck out the world, and homering off whatever AAAA guy who finally gave him a pitch to hit in PA #4.     In one of those instances he faced hot MLB-caliber pitching.

Spice is those were his first four PA in Fenway Park.

Even though by Red Sox standards, it was a quiet night (even heard one section mate comment this was the emptiest they'd ever seen it), the crowd did have a lot of fun.     There were a couple sections where most of the rain delay was a dance party.

Could Gunnar even be influencing Ryan "I'm a free swinger" Mountcastle some?  RMC's walks next to him in the lineup were notable, and today Mountcastle, for I believe the first time in his career, is mixing some zone control and impact.    Small sample size, but month to date he is in the Top Half of MLB Bats at Chase Rate.