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2 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Nice swing, but you guys are suckers for the acoustics in a minor league stadium.  It's the same reason that hard hit balls in spring training games sound amazing.  

Anyway, glad to see he's off to a good start.  Here's hoping he's legit.  It's going to be nice to see a left side of the infield with Henderson and Holliday at some point.

I'm not an acoustics expert but maybe you're onto something.   Speaking of the sound off the bat, I like Austin Hays but have you ever noticed that his shots never sound good?   I'm sorry if I'm being weird again!

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Another 2 BBs tonight out of the lead off spot.  His OBP is .180 higher than his avg through 60+ PAs.  He’s quietly having an amazing start to his career.  25 BBs to 11Ks so far.  Impressive.  

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2 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

I'm not an acoustics expert but maybe you're onto something.   Speaking of the sound off the bat, I like Austin Hays but have you ever noticed that his shots never sound good?   I'm sorry if I'm being weird again!

No, I have never noticed that.   

I went to a game in 2017 where I was sitting just a little right of home plate about 4-5 rows back.  The O’s hit 3 homers in the first inning and they were LOUD from that location.  My normal seats are 13 rows behind 1B and the sound isn’t nearly as loud at that distance.
 

 

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21 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

I'm not an acoustics expert but maybe you're onto something.   Speaking of the sound off the bat, I like Austin Hays but have you ever noticed that his shots never sound good?   I'm sorry if I'm being weird again!

Hays doesn't wear batting gloves.  I wonder if that has some effect.

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16 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

I'm not an acoustics expert but maybe you're onto something.   Speaking of the sound off the bat, I like Austin Hays but have you ever noticed that his shots never sound good?   I'm sorry if I'm being weird again!

 

10 minutes ago, Frobby said:

No, I have never noticed that.   

I went to a game in 2017 where I was sitting just a little right of home plate about 4-5 rows back.  The O’s hit 3 homers in the first inning and they were LOUD from that location.  My normal seats are 13 rows behind 1B and the sound isn’t nearly as loud at that distance.
 

 

Nah, I've never noticed that about Hays.  

I mean, I love the crack of the bat as much as anyone but I think that anecdote about Buck O'Neil saying that the sound of Bo Jackson's bat was always a load of crap.  Yeah, he said it while Jackson was taking BP in an empty stadium, of course it's going to sound different, it reverberates off 40,000 plastic seats.  Of course it's going to sound different when Frobby is 4 rows back instead of 13 and up the line.  

The idea that certain players have a different sounds off the bat is ludicrous.  Sure, someone might square one up better in one instance that sounds a bit louder, but at the end of the day it's a ball hitting a bat.  Maybe the only variable is the type of wood being used but that shouldn't make as much of a difference.  

I like being romantic about baseball as much as anyone else and I love Bo Jackson mythologies but it's a bit over the top at times, too.

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21 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

I could, too.  But the whole "The ball sounded different off Bo Jackson's bat" story, while romantic, is silly.

You don’t think the force of the swing can influence the volume of sound produced? You don’t think a bunt, a swing that produces an 85 mph exit velocity, and a swing that produces a 110 mph exit velocity might result in different volumes of noise? 

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You don’t think the force of the swing can influence the volume of sound produced? You don’t think a bunt, a swing that produces an 85 mph exit velocity, and a swing that produces a 110 mph exit velocity might result in different volumes of noise? 

Calling Bill Nye or the myth busters!

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1 minute ago, Ohfan67 said:

You don’t think the force of the swing can influence the volume of sound produced? You don’t think a bunt, a swing that produces an 85 mph exit velocity, and a swing that produces a 110 mph exit velocity might result in different volumes of noise? 

Certainly, but there are limits to how fast a human (yes, even Bo Jackson) can swing a bat.  I mean, I don't think Bo Jackson was swinging a bat harder than Giancarlo Stanton does.

Enough, I'm sorry for derailing the Jackson Holliday thread.

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Just now, Moose Milligan said:

Certainly, but there are limits to how fast a human (yes, even Bo Jackson) can swing a bat.  I mean, I don't think Bo Jackson was swinging a bat harder than Giancarlo Stanton does.

Enough, I'm sorry for derailing the Jackson Holliday thread.

I think this is a great topic. We need to do an experiment. Or better yet con someone else into doing an experiment. Maybe tweet at all the swing doctors/training faculties and see if someone will try to test the idea. There are a lot of free decibel measuring apps for phones and they are tracking exit velocities in their training sessions. Just need some sound data and to correlate with exit velocity.
 

btw, in general I agree with you. I think it’s mainly baseball romanticism.  

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31 minutes ago, Ohfan67 said:

I think this is a great topic. We need to do an experiment. Or better yet con someone else into doing an experiment. Maybe tweet at all the swing doctors/training faculties and see if someone will try to test the idea. There are a lot of free decibel measuring apps for phones and they are tracking exit velocities in their training sessions. Just need some sound data and to correlate with exit velocity.
 

btw, in general I agree with you. I think it’s mainly baseball romanticism.  

Aren't we still paying Chris Davis? Chris Davis vs. Adam Jones decibel derby to continue the 30th anniversary for Camden Yards. 

Jackson Holliday has a smooth swing, big leg kick though but I guess he's so athletic he can control it. 

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1 hour ago, CharmCityHokie said:

Aren't we still paying Chris Davis? Chris Davis vs. Adam Jones decibel derby to continue the 30th anniversary for Camden Yards. 

Jackson Holliday has a smooth swing, big leg kick though but I guess he's so athletic he can control it. 

Davis would be great if we wanted to measure the sound of whiffs. 😆

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6 hours ago, Just Regular said:

Wearing #1, it added to a first impression reminding me a little of Brian Roberts.

I figure in time he'll be a bigger-framed guy than Roberts was, but at 18 its a closer match.

Matt said he's good friends with BRob, who lives in Sarasota, so he expected Jackson would be connecting up with him while down there. 

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