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Originally Posted by tsteele316
You are forgetting the basic assumption that guys that are juicing up already have hitting talent. A musclehead sint going to come into mlb and smack the ball around, nobody's debating that. The fact is that a skilled hitter will hit more homeruns when juiced than he will without it. If musclemass didnt help in hitting, there wouldnt be the body type trend that there is among the leagues top HR hitters.
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No no bro. You said muscle equals bat speed...that was the argument. Of course players who are juiced up can muscle the ball farther...but that is not due to
bat speed.
Maybe you used the wrong terminology for your point or I'm just a little overzealous today, but either way. Muscles do not equate to bat speed. Bad speed refers to how quickly the hands get through the contact zone...it is irrelevant to power numbers. Take Ichiro for example...lightning fast hands...little power. I provided the research for bat speed for that argument...now your HR increase is a whole other argument...and one I would not argue.