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Reply to "Spin Rate - Is it really that big of a deal?"

Kyle Boddy posted:

Pitch physics data, including spin rate, are things I immediately look at when coaching my players at Driveline Baseball and the Cincinnati Reds. It's also a very important metric for our scouts.

So, take that for what it's worth.

This also isn't a new thing. Scouts always said things like fastball has rise, curve breaks late, fastball moves to glove side, curve is 12-6....

Today we have just ways to quantify it better and thus also be more effective than it used to be in changing that stuff because back then pitch design was experimenting with grips but you couldn't see what actually happened with a 30 fps camera so it was a bit of a craps hoot. 

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