Guardians @ Astros, May 24, 2022

I wonder how they measure that. If it’s total elapsed time (from when? Contact? First stride outside the box?), then lefties definitely have a substantial advantage. But maybe they have a way of getting instantaneous readings while a guy is running down the line. In that case righties have an extra stride or two and might actually top out faster even their elapsed time is longer.

I believe elapsed time is from contact, but that is different than measuring sprint speed, which is a Statcast reading of peak speed.

This. It’s feet per second at top speed. I wish being left handed made me faster.

Thanks.

I did not mean faster. I meant time to first base.

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Yep. If you look at the replay, you can see Yordan was slow to get out of the batters box and chugged his way up to a fast speed as he neared 1B.

We need to clone him, he’d be the best TE/DE in the NFL

/Texans accomplish cloning
//Texans trade clone and first rounder for three fourth rounders

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///John McClain makes excuses for it