So does the ball carry further when it is hot and humid in the day? in the night?
mixed bag here. the more humidity the more the ball should carry. but on the other hand the less humidity, the more difficult it is for the pitchers to create movement on the ball, means straighter pitches, which are easier for batters to hit that breaking pitches.
mlb required that teams provide game time temp as part of the game stats, but they have never done the same with humidity which appears to be a greater factor in the ov/un. so far 50-65 appears to be the best range for a pitcher, both in terms of confort and ability to do with the ball as they please
yesterday in zone i saw a bunch of balls hanging that were hit well, but i also saw a bunch of good breaking balls etc. couple guys thrown out at third trying to turn doubles into triples and 2 sac bunts where they were thrown out at 3rd as well, but eddings is a tough ump to get an over on if the batters are not swinging the bat and the infield are turning the plays on ground balls
so the bottom line is that were going to need to see more data on humidity just like when people started tracking umps to see what the numbers really are, and where have the greatest effect one way or the other
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