So about those ‘deadened’ baseballs … exit velocity says, ‘Nope’
by Sam Fels from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#5GBF9)
While watching Shohei Ohtani take a Dylan Cease fastball that was at the height of his Adam's apple 450 feet out to right center Sunday night, I felt my curiosity piqued when the Statcast numbers came in. 450 feet seemed right, because he utterly murdered that ball. But that wasn't what shifted my eyebrows. It was the...