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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 3249810, member: 1131"] I'm glad that so many people were sufficiently interested in this conundrum that they were motivated to respond. I would simply point out that the article cited by Bama Fan clearly reaches a conclusion which is opposite to that of most people who responded to this thread. The article says that if all else is equal (force of bat, squareness of contact, friction generated by the ball against the air), then the exit velocity of a hit against a faster pitch will be LESS than the exit velocity of the same hit against a slower pitch. The key (as I understand the article) is that the energy of the pitch is opposite to the energy of the bat, so it reduces the net velocity rather than increasing it. As I said, I can think of intuitive arguments that support either conclusion, but the article claims to resolve the hypothetical question definitively. [/QUOTE]