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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 3, 2020 14:11:06 GMT
me: Jamie Moyer change-up. 
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Apr 3, 2020 14:23:09 GMT
Got to be Randy Johnson. I mean I couldn’t hit any of them but the chances are higher that Johnson could kill you.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Apr 3, 2020 14:31:41 GMT
at least with a fastball you know it's coming (hopefully) down the middle - i.e. pretty much a straight trajectory
i want no part of a ball with movement (change of trajectory) on it
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 3, 2020 14:32:50 GMT
Got to be Randy Johnson. I mean I couldn’t hit any of them but the chances are higher that Johnson could kill you. as a lhb maybe. i recall asking jt snow at a bar once after rando beaned him in the face if he stopped batting lhb because of that...he said: what the fuck do you think? 
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Post by masterofallgoons on Apr 3, 2020 14:36:10 GMT
A friend of mine who played college baseball always said he would have wanted to face Rivera, just so he could see what that pitch was like because it didn't seem like it should be so hard to figure out but it was obviously extraordinarily effective.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Apr 3, 2020 14:44:37 GMT
Any power pitcher on a cold April day. Your timing is still off, the weather is cold, you catch a fastball on the hand or on your fingers, that shit hurts for days. I mean, it always hurts, but on those cold days, even a foul ball where the pitch rides in on you and gets close to your hands stings.
Specific pitches? I agree with goons, I want to see what that Rivera pitch looks like. I'd least want to see a Doc Gooden in his prime curveball because it just seemed impossible to hit.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Apr 3, 2020 15:17:16 GMT
I wonder how different it would be to try and hit a submarine guy like Tekulve or Quisenberry. I mean obviously they’re not coming at you with Nolan Ryan heat but I wonder how a batter would have to adjust. One of them or a guy like Phil Niekro. Dude has over 300 wins and I, from my couch, am like “I could hit that!”
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 3, 2020 15:29:20 GMT
Any power pitcher on a cold April day. Your timing is still off, the weather is cold, you catch a fastball on the hand or on your fingers, that shit hurts for days. I mean, it always hurts, but on those cold days, even a foul ball where the pitch rides in on you and gets close to your hands stings. Specific pitches? I agree with goons, I want to see what that Rivera pitch looks like. I'd least want to see a Doc Gooden in his prime curveball because it just seemed impossible to hit. i'd like to hit against tom glavine. as a rhb i would crowd the plate--what's he going to do hit me with his 90 mph fastball?!! i never understood why rhb never scooted up on the plate against him---esp. when he was getting the far outside corner a strike...
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Post by fjenkins on Apr 3, 2020 15:38:07 GMT
Got to be Randy Johnson. I mean I couldn’t hit any of them but the chances are higher that Johnson could kill you. as a lhb maybe. i recall asking jt snow at a bar once after rando beaned him in the face if he stopped batting lhb because of that...he said: what the fuck do you think? You ran into JT at a bar? I don' t know why I always thought he was Mormon.
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Post by Jokers_Wilde on Apr 3, 2020 15:44:33 GMT
The Tim Wakefield or Phil Niekro knuckleball. I think Charlie Hough also perfected the knuckler.
As it was coming to me, I would be thinking....it's coming in really slow. I'm gonna knock it out of the park!
I would take a big swing - only for the ball to take a deep nose dive. I would likely then miss. 
Joker's Wilde
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 3, 2020 15:47:14 GMT
millar70 fjenkins as a lhb maybe. i recall asking jt snow at a bar once after rando beaned him in the face if he stopped batting lhb because of that...he said: what the fuck do you think? You ran into JT at a bar? I don' t know why I always thought he was Mormon. his dad played for notre dame... i was bartending actually. he ordered a captain & coke. i said, i only serve those to people under the age of 21. his buddies laughed. he didn't.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Apr 3, 2020 15:57:26 GMT
Anything thrown by Gus Weyhing
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 3, 2020 16:05:40 GMT
The Tim Wakefield or Phil Niekro knuckleball. I think Charlie Hough also perfected the knuckler.
As it was coming to me, I would be thinking....it's coming in really slow. I'm gonna knock it out of the park!
I would take a big swing - only for the ball to take a deep nose dive. I would likely then miss.
Joker's Wilde i'd want to face a knuckler....
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Post by twothousandonemark on Apr 3, 2020 16:07:53 GMT
Goose Gossage fastball... that's like walking into traffic on an expressway full of semi's.
HM: Gregg Olson's 'Uncle Charlie' curveball... it just looks physics bending.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Apr 3, 2020 16:11:13 GMT
A friend of mine who played college baseball always said he would have wanted to face Rivera, just so he could see what that pitch was like because it didn't seem like it should be so hard to figure out but it was obviously extraordinarily effective. It just looks unapproachable, like the brain can't figure out in time the snap buckle of it under you. I think that's why lefties fared even worse because there's no adjustment time in the box. Rivera's cutter at 60 feet 6 inches from one's brain doesn't register I guess.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Apr 3, 2020 20:47:28 GMT
Dwight Gooden's curve. Doc is remembered for his fastball but his lollypop curve was a thing of beauty. A true 12 to 6 curve. Called "Lord Charles" it was 100% unhittable if a batter was sure the fastball was coming
HM
Gaylord Perry spitter
Mike Scott split finger
Mo Rivera's cutter
Phil Niekro's knuckleball
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 3, 2020 23:51:11 GMT
Dwight Gooden's curve. Doc is remembered for his fastball but his lollypop curve was a thing of beauty. A true 12 to 6 curve. Called "Lord Charles" it was 100% unhittable if a batter was sure the fastball was coming HM Gaylord Perry spitter Mike Scott split finger Mo Rivera's cutter Phil Niekro's knuckleball would you gents be able to keep yer helmet on?
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Post by WarrenPeace on Apr 4, 2020 1:14:32 GMT
at least with a fastball you know it's coming (hopefully) down the middle - i.e. pretty much a straight trajectory i want no part of a ball with movement (change of trajectory) on it I've only played slow pitch softball. So someday I'll go to a public batting cage and see if I can hit a fast pitch of both softball and baseball just for grins and giggles. If there is one near you, you could do that too.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Apr 4, 2020 1:15:35 GMT
1st choice:
ANYTHING that is coming at my head!
2nd:
Knuckleball.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 4, 2020 1:50:52 GMT
gene garber...pete rose couldn't hit him.. |
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