[nomo17k]

Quote: Originally Posted by seanjeezy

... Nomo I have a question for you - will a perfect timing, perfect contact groundball have the same exit speed as a line drive or a flyball? Is there a possibility the game sees groundballs as a weaker hit type and are therefore not hit as hard? I posted the statcast video of Panik's double play in another thread (I think it was the WAR one), it says the groundball Hosmer hit had an exit velocity of 106.1 MPH, which if he had hit in the air, would have enough velocity to make it over the fence.

I mean, there are enough hard hit grounders already in the game that I don't see that should be a concern (i.e., not all grounders are weakly hit in the game). Besides, the game (to my knowledge) doesn't decides hit type based on clear categorization like pop-up, fly ball, line drive, grounder, chopper, etc. They are categorized as such *after the fact* based on how fast and which direction the batted ball goes based on the quality of contact made, so it's not like the game is doing "okay, it's time to generate a grounder, so which one among the grounder trajectories should I choose for this one..." type of thing. I think the game generates a ball trajectory from a wide and continuum spectrum of possible hit types already... so something like 100+ mph grounder I don't think is prevented from happening per se.