![]() ![]() and earned a contract with the A’s franchise.)Īs a pitcher, knowing your velocity obviously allows you to see how hard your fastball is – as well as how much variation there between your fastball, change-up and breaking pitches. ![]() ![]() ( This July, for example, 23-year-old Oakland A’s fan Nathan Patterson – who hadn’t played baseball since high school – took a turn against the radar gun in the Fan Zone at an A’s game. But since Michigan coach Danny Litwhiler began using police radar technology as a training tool in the early ’70s, pitch velocity has become one of the most important stats in baseball. Everything You’d Ever Wanna Know about Radar Guns in Baseballīeing able to track pitch speed in baseball wasn’t always as important as it is today. Hope you enjoy Matt Brown’s thoughts, insights and opinions on radar guns. With that in mind, Baseball Roundtable is pleased to present this guest post – looking at radar guns – from Matt Brown of Lift Your Game (), a website dedicated to providing sport equipment reviews, performance tips and advanced tutorials. But really, this fascination with measuring velocity started with the radar gun and raw pitch speed. Today, we have the means to measure not just pitch speed, but also pitch spin rate, launch angle and velocity off the bat and much more. Click here to see a video of that match up. It was a race of man against machine (and an attempt to illustrate just how blisteringly fast Feller’s heater was). We’ve come a long way since that day in the summer of 1940, when a motorcycle sped past Bob Feller (going into his wind up in Chicago’s Lincoln Park) motoring loudly toward a paper barrier, while Feller launched his fastball toward an adjacent paper target. BASEBALL ROUNDTABLE PRESENTS A GUEST POST FROM LIFT YOUR GAME ![]()
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