There may not be crying in baseball, but there’s math these days – lots and lots of math.
One of the oldest and most hidebound games in the history of sports is adopting technology to such an immersive degree that virtually everything in the game is now being measured and tabulated and spit out of computers for evaluation by players and coaches. Even the venerable home run has been broken down into a mathematical equation – a 95 mph exit velocity plus a 35 degree launch angle equals a slow job around the bases.
What in the world are “exit velocity” and “launch angle”?