What we currently know about AAA changing to MLB balls

grandsalami
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What we currently know about AAA changing to MLB balls May 23, 2019 18:46:41 GMT -5 via Tapatalk

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Post by grandsalami on May 23, 2019 18:46:41 GMT -5

Keep in mind these stats are being put up before the weather has even gotten warm.

-cross posting from my post on baseball reddit-
So far in AAA the IL has it 726 HR’s (1555 in 2018) and the PCL has hit 1060 HR’s (2097 in 2018) which is %46.6 and %50.5 of their home run totals from last year.

It’s pretty obvious MLB balls are juiced.

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What we currently know about AAA changing to MLB balls May 23, 2019 19:28:37 GMT -5

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Post by fenwaythehardway on May 23, 2019 19:28:37 GMT -5

May 23, 2019 18:46:41 GMT -5 grandsalami said:

It’s pretty obvious MLB balls are juiced.

Literally MLB’s own study of the balls came to this conclusion, a year ago: www.si.com/mlb/2018/05/24/juiced-ball-study-aerodynamics-home-run-surge

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What we currently know about AAA changing to MLB balls May 23, 2019 20:54:55 GMT -5

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Post by sittingstill on May 23, 2019 20:54:55 GMT -5

Alex Speier with a piece on this today, including this note:

The average cost of a dozen big league balls, according to a Minor League Baseball spokesman, is $102.50; a dozen of the balls used this year in Double A and below is $49.15. an average Triple-A team, the same spokesman said, might use about 900 dozen balls in a season – meaning an annual cost difference of approximately $48,000 for one team’s baseballs.

(The PawSox used 102 dozen gameballs in 10 April games. While the Red Sox assume two-thirds of the cost of balls used in Triple A and the PawSox pick up the remaining one-third, the projected price differential of roughly $12,000 for the Triple-A club is a meaningful one for a minor league franchise.)

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What we currently know about AAA changing to MLB balls May 23, 2019 22:43:22 GMT -5

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Post by James Dunne on May 23, 2019 22:43:22 GMT -5

"We want to encourage speedier play and more contact. Also, here's equipment that incentivizes putting the ball in the air because it will probably fly out of the park, and also give blisters to pitchers."