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Reply to "Pitching machine speed"

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Originally posted by baseballpapa:
Pitchers generally release 70 - 90% of their body length and that is around 55 feet to set the machine if working game release distances.

Reaction times would vary by distance, of course, if you have a machine at 50 feet reaction time velocity is approximately the speed it throws/.90 to equate 55 ft release points.


Doesn't the machine have to be closer to account for the length of the pitcher's arms?
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