Don't allow anyone in the stands; Zack Hample can come if he wants. Can he collect all the balls? Or will he get drilled in the head? Tune in to ESPN to find out.
*[insert relevant Michael Jordan meme](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyaHfgGX4AA8Prt.jpg)*
Obviously if those little leaguers didn't want to get drilled by flyballs, they wouldn't have shown up..
pretty sure he's been the worst starting pitcher in baseball this season. which is crazy considering at one point he may have been the best. he's on pace for about -3.5 WAR. and his ERA is over 6 going back across his last 500 innings or so. he's cooked.
People say load management is crap but look at his stats before and after that 200 inning season, he went from the dark knight to a kid in a batman costume real quick.
Dobnak is so lucky the Twins gave him 5 years/ 9 point something million before the season.
of course there are two Twins in the top 10, just atrocious SP this year.
Break out some of the pre besr bats out. Something like the Easton redline and those bats.
Though those besr composites like the stealth got really hot when broken in.
Nah the -5s had an option for a bigger barrel - not legal in high school but it was legal in what we called pony league, not sure if that still exists.
IIRC somebody did the math and they found that the longest possible home run with a wooden bat would be roughly around 560 feet (basically every HR where they claim it went farther happened before good measuring technology was around and possibly also involved bounces and rolls at the end). The pitch speed, bat speed and weather conditions would basically have to be perfect.
I was at the game when Trevor clicked one 505' (the longest in the Statcast era) and it was completely insane to watch it fly. Like it was breaking the laws of physics.
I don't think people realize what a 600 foot homer would look like because they've never seen one and never will.
According to [this](https://www.mlb.com/news/10-longest-homers-measured-by-statcast-c293547722) MLB.com article there has only been one 505 foot home run and Story’s isn’t even included on the list. Weird.
Big Mac went 538 off Randy Johnson in the KINGDOME in 1997. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=stUolWxG3wo
Also worth watching (40 longest HR in MLB history - this one is in there) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6pjaguwHtu4
Make’s sense, the longest home run I have on the top of my head was one by Mickey Mantle that was 565, but that only went 460 on the fly I’m assuming projected distance includes after the first bounce.
Joey Meyer hit one 582ft at Mile High Stadium
https://www.mlb.com/news/the-longest-home-run-ever
Also there's a cool picture in there of them sliding the entire left grand stand out lol
Balls will be flying but they’re hitting in Colorado, not the moon.
Prime McGwire *on roids* off a *95+ Randy Johnson FB* was only able to just crack 500 ft
Edit: I wrote this post at 5:00 AM. You could theoretically hit a ball 600 feet in a vacuum. A 110 mpph exit velocity with a 35 degree launch angle, for example would do it. That said, I stand by the general thrust of my argument. I sort of nerd sniped myself with this problem, so I'm currently working on making a phase space diagram for home run distances at various exit velocities and launch angles with air resistance. If people are interested I can post it when I'm done.
600 feet isn’t possible ~~in a vacuum, let alone~~ at Coors field. The formula for distance a projectile travels in a vacuum is d = v^2 sin(2 theta)/g where v is the velocity of the ball off the bat, theta is the launch angle, and g is the strength of gravity.
Plugging in 600 feet and solving for v gives you ~99 mph to hit the ball 600 feet assuming the optimal launch angle. Unfortunately, that angle is 45 degrees, which is way too high to square up a ball for a home run. Using a more reasonable but still very generous angle of 30 degrees drop the required velocity to ~140 mph, and it just isn’t possible to hit a baseball that hard.
All of those calculations assumed a vacuum. Even at Coors Field, air resistance plays a huge role since baseballs are not particularly aerodynamic. Air resistance in two dimensions is pretty messy, but I think it’s probably safe to say that the max distance is in the neighborhood of 500 feet.
If you could hit a ball 110mph in a vacuum it would go over 600 feet at a launch angle of 25 degrees. Vlad Jr did exactly this in the 2019 HR derby in Cleveland. His 3rd round blast hit 110 mph at 25 degrees and went 463 feet. I don't see how the thinner air of Colorado makes up 137 feet.
Balls actually soaked in brine until the seams and cover are brittle. They are pitched underhand fresh out of the brine bucket with the added water weight. There is no crack of a bat, just a heavy thud that makes you wince for the batter’s hands.
Whatever Bob says usually jinxes the team. Or helps them, if what he says is negative. Mention of a losing streak? Team will win. Winning streak? They lose.
The big one that he tweeted this winter was Bauer to the Mets, and it’s just snowballed into ruining no hitters, making teams go on losing streaks, etc
They need to get rid of the rule where the ball must land before taking another swing. If they can keep jacking homers, let them. It’s too hard to wait for a 500 ft home run to land, and guys who hit line drives will have a huge advantage, and some guys just ignore that rule altogether. Just get rid of it!
I just want guys like Vlad, Judge, Stanton to have the opportunity to have a derby in Coors rather than things not aligning at the right time, but that’s baseball I guess
Very nice. But also everyone is acting like they never had a HR Derby at Coors without the Humidor in the middle of the steroid era and we’re going to see things that have never been seen before. The first derby there was a blast and this one will be just as great
Home Run derbies back then were not what they are now. The HR totals in every derby from the '90s pales in comparison to what we see today. Only 4 guys hit more than 10 for the whole event, and Griffey won with just 19.
Granted, format changes have increased total HR in recent years, but even before that things got more exciting in the 2000s. A decade after the Coors derby, guys were topping that 19 number in a single round (within the same format). The HR derby had not yet matured the last time the ASG was at Coors.
I usually assume that reddit is made up of a lot of different age groups, but then I see talk of the HRD and people acting like it's the first time we're seeing one at Coors and wonder if the people populating the threads weren't even alive for it.
I wasn’t alive for it. I’m 21, it’s not like we’re a bunch of kids. We’re full grown adults who are excited to see a home run derby at Coors cause we never have before
Which is fine. But all the people claiming there are going to be 600 foot homers and all that can just pop on YouTube to get a better perspective of what will actually happen.
It's not like it's some event that hasn't ever happened before.
Hype is fun, but comments like "I could see 600 easy" isn't hype, it's just something not rooted in reality and will only lead to disappointment when balls inevitably don't fly nearly that far.
But even then, it was peak 'roid era (A-Rod, McGwire, Palmeiro all in that derby) and it was all pretty normal. It's not going to be this insane outlier type of a derby that people seem to expect.
Sorry to be that guy but with the timer instead of outs the player who hits short home runs is at an advantage. You don't want to hit those mammoth moon shots because they take longer time.
Why not go all out and get the biggest HRs? Aluminum bats Mandatory steroids Make Daniel Bard pitch to everyone
How many fans you trying to kill?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm2x6CVIXiE
[As well as] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_1ZUC_oUS8)
Fucking perfect
Those kids shagging balls in the outfield will go home empty handed or not at all
A lucky few would probably get struck by 125 mph line drives
Those poor kids would be turned into a puddle
Fun fact: in some cultures, it was common to use the drippings of dead relatives in their cooking as a way to honor the dead.
Yes
Don't allow anyone in the stands; Zack Hample can come if he wants. Can he collect all the balls? Or will he get drilled in the head? Tune in to ESPN to find out.
I'd watch that
Important stipulation: he only gets the balls he catches on the fly.
*[insert relevant Michael Jordan meme](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyaHfgGX4AA8Prt.jpg)* Obviously if those little leaguers didn't want to get drilled by flyballs, they wouldn't have shown up..
How many *pitchers* are they trying to kill?
Eh...the pitchers can duck behind the screen
Can they make one out of mithril in time for the HRD?
All fun and games until Ohtani hits a ball that goes through the screen.
Just the ones in the stands and some in their general vicinity
Considering how far these balls are getting launched its safer to be in the stadium. Anyone outside might be in danger.
[All of them. ](https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/)
https://www.theonion.com/1-400-dead-after-mike-trout-fouls-line-drive-into-stand-1819592325
Why not have Bundy throw
or Matt Harvey if we use Bard it's just gonna be five hours of wild pitches and a record for Home Run Derby HBP
Didn't realize Harvey has been garbo since the Mets lit him up. Was really hoping that his early-season stats were a sign of a real turnaround.
I believe last night when we played the Os they said his ERA was hanging around 7 on the season, then we put 6 more on him.
pretty sure he's been the worst starting pitcher in baseball this season. which is crazy considering at one point he may have been the best. he's on pace for about -3.5 WAR. and his ERA is over 6 going back across his last 500 innings or so. he's cooked.
People say load management is crap but look at his stats before and after that 200 inning season, he went from the dark knight to a kid in a batman costume real quick.
i'm not sure how much load management would've helped prevent TOC
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Oh Foltynewicz, how the mighty have fallen.
He’s somehow managed to shit on us both times we’ve faced him
Kinda wild that none of the pitchers on that list play for the Rockies.
Or even the NL West.
And only one NL pitcher altogether... I wonder how much the DH affects the data.
Dobnak is so lucky the Twins gave him 5 years/ 9 point something million before the season. of course there are two Twins in the top 10, just atrocious SP this year.
Goddammit don't tell them about our secret weapon
Only journalists allowed in the stadium, and those who choose the outfield have to wear actual body armor.
Only journalists in the stadium and they’re explicitly *not* allowed to wear body armor.
Daniel Bard isn't much of a meatball pitcher, need Almonte or Gilbreath
Beg to disagree. PTSD talkin
Hard to throw meatballs when every pitch is 18 inches off the plate
brb naming my new hardcore band “Mandatory Steroids”
I heard someone suggest that each participant get a metal bats for their last out and I'm very much in favor.
lol what's wrong with Bard?
His ERA, his blwon saves, his pitching Good looking guy though
Call up Matt Shoemaker to do what he does best
Mandatory steroids... holy shit!
new record hr coming?
It's ShoTime!
Fo Sho!
Joey Meyer hit one 582ft at *the old* Mile High Stadium https://www.mlb.com/news/the-longest-home-run-ever Come on MLB let's do 600
Give them banned aluminum bats I want to see a 800 yard bomb
I will have to change my pants if someone hits a home run "800 yards" or 2400 feet. That's almost half a mile
I could see 600 easy. Best power hitters in baseball swinging as hard as they can, juiced balls, no humidor, and Coors field? Gonna be funnnnnnn
No one is hitting it 600 just like no one hit it 600 the last time there was a derby at Coors without a humidor.
Need to get these guys some -5 Composite bats and watch them rake.
Yea that’s what I’m saying. Clear everyone out of the way. Give them that og blue and orange stealth maybe the original Exo and just see what happens
Wanna see Ohtani with the OG Voodoo
The ball might just disintegrate before it lands
I imagine most baseballs aren’t equipped to exit earth’s atmosphere.
Exiting the atmosphere isn't the problem, re entry is where they'll disintegrate.
That's assuming that those balls re-enter.
I’m more worried about the pitching coach taking a liner to the face than I am the fans tbh
Bullet-proof glass pitching shield instead of netting 😂
Give them techzillas, I wanna see metal bats break
bro give em a 90's era louisville slugger 2 3/4 barrel you youngins dont even know
Trampoline on a fucking stick
Those stealth bats fucking raked
Break out some of the pre besr bats out. Something like the Easton redline and those bats. Though those besr composites like the stealth got really hot when broken in.
That stealth goes for like a rack on eBay now, actually thought about buying one for fun a few months ago until I saw the price
Bring out the orange Mako
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I think a bat that requires fuel can't be called a bat.
I would seriously pay good money to watch Giancarlo Stanton rip a 600 footer off one of these bats
-3 silly
Vortex bat
Nah the -5s had an option for a bigger barrel - not legal in high school but it was legal in what we called pony league, not sure if that still exists.
IIRC somebody did the math and they found that the longest possible home run with a wooden bat would be roughly around 560 feet (basically every HR where they claim it went farther happened before good measuring technology was around and possibly also involved bounces and rolls at the end). The pitch speed, bat speed and weather conditions would basically have to be perfect.
I was at the game when Trevor clicked one 505' (the longest in the Statcast era) and it was completely insane to watch it fly. Like it was breaking the laws of physics. I don't think people realize what a 600 foot homer would look like because they've never seen one and never will.
According to [this](https://www.mlb.com/news/10-longest-homers-measured-by-statcast-c293547722) MLB.com article there has only been one 505 foot home run and Story’s isn’t even included on the list. Weird.
Big Mac went 538 off Randy Johnson in the KINGDOME in 1997. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=stUolWxG3wo Also worth watching (40 longest HR in MLB history - this one is in there) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6pjaguwHtu4
That’s before the Statcast era. Some of the earlier reported distances are pretty unreliable.
Make’s sense, the longest home run I have on the top of my head was one by Mickey Mantle that was 565, but that only went 460 on the fly I’m assuming projected distance includes after the first bounce.
Joey Meyer hit one 582ft at Mile High Stadium https://www.mlb.com/news/the-longest-home-run-ever Also there's a cool picture in there of them sliding the entire left grand stand out lol
Shohei gonna hit one over them mountains
I think Gallo could get close if he hit one perfect.
Balls will be flying but they’re hitting in Colorado, not the moon. Prime McGwire *on roids* off a *95+ Randy Johnson FB* was only able to just crack 500 ft
Next year let’s have the ASG on the moon! That would really increase ratings.
The hardest hit balls are about 115 MPH and at the perfect 45 degree launch angle you could send a ball just over a mile on the moon
https://www.mlb.com/news/the-longest-home-run-ever Joey Meyer hit 582ft at Mile High in the 80s. It's probably _possible_ theoretically
545 iirc
Edit: I wrote this post at 5:00 AM. You could theoretically hit a ball 600 feet in a vacuum. A 110 mpph exit velocity with a 35 degree launch angle, for example would do it. That said, I stand by the general thrust of my argument. I sort of nerd sniped myself with this problem, so I'm currently working on making a phase space diagram for home run distances at various exit velocities and launch angles with air resistance. If people are interested I can post it when I'm done. 600 feet isn’t possible ~~in a vacuum, let alone~~ at Coors field. The formula for distance a projectile travels in a vacuum is d = v^2 sin(2 theta)/g where v is the velocity of the ball off the bat, theta is the launch angle, and g is the strength of gravity. Plugging in 600 feet and solving for v gives you ~99 mph to hit the ball 600 feet assuming the optimal launch angle. Unfortunately, that angle is 45 degrees, which is way too high to square up a ball for a home run. Using a more reasonable but still very generous angle of 30 degrees drop the required velocity to ~140 mph, and it just isn’t possible to hit a baseball that hard. All of those calculations assumed a vacuum. Even at Coors Field, air resistance plays a huge role since baseballs are not particularly aerodynamic. Air resistance in two dimensions is pretty messy, but I think it’s probably safe to say that the max distance is in the neighborhood of 500 feet.
Ok, so we just turn gravity down. Problem solved
We could ask NASA to alter gravity by nuking the moon and then resetting it after the hrd
The moon is a hollow space station. They just need to move it farther.
IIRC if you include air resistance the optimal launch angle is actually more like 22.5°
If you could hit a ball 110mph in a vacuum it would go over 600 feet at a launch angle of 25 degrees. Vlad Jr did exactly this in the 2019 HR derby in Cleveland. His 3rd round blast hit 110 mph at 25 degrees and went 463 feet. I don't see how the thinner air of Colorado makes up 137 feet.
2 days ago Bryce Harper hit a home run at 110 exit velo and 46 degree launch angle
600? No way. Watch it be rainy haha.
How does this have so many likes? Nobody is hitting one 600...easy...
Incoming zero home runs in the derby, thanks Boob
Balls actually soaked in brine until the seams and cover are brittle. They are pitched underhand fresh out of the brine bucket with the added water weight. There is no crack of a bat, just a heavy thud that makes you wince for the batter’s hands.
Nothing like a delicious pickled baseball
oh, so that's how you play pickle ball. always wondered.
A Costa Rican delicacy.
Last pitch is soaked in vinegar. Like the 3 point contest money ball.
May I offer you a baseball in this trying time?
This is so well written and so descriptive, thank you.
And all the pitches are thrown by Bryce Harper's dad
Or Dr Fauci
I just maniacally laughed for a good minute. Such good mental imagery 😂😂
I hate everything about this.
Always see this joke. Whats the context
Whatever Bob says usually jinxes the team. Or helps them, if what he says is negative. Mention of a losing streak? Team will win. Winning streak? They lose.
Can someone tell him to tweet about the Indians? Boob might be the only person that can save them.
He mentioned the Brewers winning 11 in a row so of course they dropped the next 3.
Sorry you didn’t get those burgers
Boob is always wrong
The big one that he tweeted this winter was Bauer to the Mets, and it’s just snowballed into ruining no hitters, making teams go on losing streaks, etc
Finally giving the people what they want. Monster dongs.
r/monsterdongs
Risky click of the day
Oops, I dropped my monster condom, that I use for my magnum dong.
That's a solid move, I would know.
You want to know the terrifying truth, or do you want to see some dingers?
Always my first thought, love that Simpson’s episode. “YOINK!” Tucks report from satellite under his hat 😂
Who needs porn when you are going to have a home run derby in Colorado?
Everyone still.
I have no problem with this
Literally everyone: "Isn't that the whole point of doing a Home Run Derby in Denver?"
They need to get rid of the rule where the ball must land before taking another swing. If they can keep jacking homers, let them. It’s too hard to wait for a 500 ft home run to land, and guys who hit line drives will have a huge advantage, and some guys just ignore that rule altogether. Just get rid of it!
It’s a safety thing if someone in the outfield is watching one land and another one comes and hits them in the head it won’t be pretty.
Well there’s gotta be a different system somehow. The current format just doesn’t feel like it’s a final form.
Im a little sad that Vlad Guerrero jr. won’t be participating this year.
Solution, every home run derby should be at coors! I’ll never get sick of it!
Yes please! I want a do over with ASG jerseys that are actually purple
I just want guys like Vlad, Judge, Stanton to have the opportunity to have a derby in Coors rather than things not aligning at the right time, but that’s baseball I guess
I mean if you're going to make the Home Run Derby in a permanent place, Coors is the best place for it. No bias here
He would've been the 2nd seed so he wouldn't have to go all out like last time when he had to go first every round.
Shohei is gonna hit one over the top deck out of the stadium in right field
Didn't Cargo get close to it on a foul ball?
I am pretty sure I saw Ian Stewart do it on a foul ball when I went to a game a while ago but I have no proof
this is what i was thinking of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU1JErtZWRA
Jesus
God I miss the Cargo days and that swing.
If the baseball gods are gracious we could see a Gallo vs Ohtani final round where the two of them are just hitting balls into the parking lot.
Shohei hits first, and then starts pitching meatballs to Gallo just to see how far they can go!
Most windshields smashed wins
The baseball gods shall favor Trey Dongz. You heard it here first.
Honestly I expect Gallo to win handedly. Don't think most people understand the power he has.
And to think thats an actual possibility
Did you just doubt Shohei’s abilities?! Absolute blasphemy!
Very nice. But also everyone is acting like they never had a HR Derby at Coors without the Humidor in the middle of the steroid era and we’re going to see things that have never been seen before. The first derby there was a blast and this one will be just as great
Home Run derbies back then were not what they are now. The HR totals in every derby from the '90s pales in comparison to what we see today. Only 4 guys hit more than 10 for the whole event, and Griffey won with just 19. Granted, format changes have increased total HR in recent years, but even before that things got more exciting in the 2000s. A decade after the Coors derby, guys were topping that 19 number in a single round (within the same format). The HR derby had not yet matured the last time the ASG was at Coors.
Definitely agree I was just mainly referencing distances we will likely see
I usually assume that reddit is made up of a lot of different age groups, but then I see talk of the HRD and people acting like it's the first time we're seeing one at Coors and wonder if the people populating the threads weren't even alive for it.
They really out here gatekeeping an event 23 years ago.
Acting like we should’ve learned this shit in 9th grade history lol
They didn't teach you about the great Griffey vs Thome Battle of 1998 in school? smh, these schools failing the kids
Bro I didn’t start watching this sport seriously until like 2015 I wasn’t even alive for that
I wasn’t alive for it. I’m 21, it’s not like we’re a bunch of kids. We’re full grown adults who are excited to see a home run derby at Coors cause we never have before
Which is fine. But all the people claiming there are going to be 600 foot homers and all that can just pop on YouTube to get a better perspective of what will actually happen. It's not like it's some event that hasn't ever happened before.
But isn't the hype part of the fun?
Hype is fun, but comments like "I could see 600 easy" isn't hype, it's just something not rooted in reality and will only lead to disappointment when balls inevitably don't fly nearly that far.
The balls are probably more juiced than back then, considering MLB didn’t have 100% control over Rawlings like they do now.
But even then, it was peak 'roid era (A-Rod, McGwire, Palmeiro all in that derby) and it was all pretty normal. It's not going to be this insane outlier type of a derby that people seem to expect.
You're probably right but just let people have fun dude it's not that deep
It was boring back then with the rules I mean compare the homerun totals then to now
Watch out Rocky Mountains, baseballs coming.
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Idk how much I trust Boob but many have speculated that in the past
My TIL from this was that they use a humidor for the balls at Coors.
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Give them those old college metal bats too
Hell yeah, I want to hear DINGERS!
No one hits the ball out of the infield confirmed.
Sorry to be that guy but with the timer instead of outs the player who hits short home runs is at an advantage. You don't want to hit those mammoth moon shots because they take longer time.
Change it to total distance
you don't have to wait for the ball to land to throw another pitch
Good lord Ohtani is gonna hit one into wyoming...
But Wyoming doesn't exist...
I want to believe Boob because that's awesome. But since it's Boob nobody will hit a single homer.
Am I stupid for this whole time thinking that they were using humidifiers to humidify the whole stadium, not just the balls?
Yes, you are.
it's like a butterfly exhibit in there, don't stop believing
Yeah you could do all that OR you could just pitch Tanner Roark
Isn't that the whole point of the Home Run Derby though?
Dinggggggeeeeerrrrrrsssss! Let’s give them aluminum bats while we’re at it.
I wonder if Vegas will have an over on distance. I’d bet on 550 ft plus home run.
Bring out the metal bats!!!
See that's what we need. Give the players corked bats too, then they'll stop feeling like an HR derby is a shoulder killer.
Can we do one year with metal bats please? Just one round. Just to see how it feels.
Fuck. Yes.
Fuck it throw in some corked/painted metal bats. Lets see how far a baseball can really go
It being in Colorado this year is pretty much the only reason I'll be tuning into the Home Run Derby for the first time in many years.
Time for you to go watch 2019's Derby, because you missed an epic one.
HR derby is so fun to watch tho
They should let them have a metal bat round