http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/26/prehistoric-mammal-figured-out-how-to-hit-home-runs%e2%80%94with-its-tail/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day\'s most compelling topics. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:44:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/26/prehistoric-mammal-figured-out-how-to-hit-home-runs%e2%80%94with-its-tail/comment-page-1/#comment-44820 YouRang Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:04:22 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/26/prehistoric-mammal-figured-out-how-to-hit-home-runs%e2%80%94with-its-tail/#comment-44820 It seems to me that the "without hurting the wrists" idea is a little off base. If one hits outside the sweet spot, the rotation might marginally threaten the lower side thumb (left hand for right handed batters, etc); but the angle wouldn't hurt the wrist. The main virtue of the sweet spot is the transfer of all the instantaneous angular momentum of the bat to the ball. If there were such a threat to wrists, the playing time of players would be measured in weeks. It seems to me that the “without hurting the wrists” idea is a little off base. If one hits outside the sweet spot, the rotation might marginally threaten the lower side thumb (left hand for right handed batters, etc); but the angle wouldn’t hurt the wrist. The main virtue of the sweet spot is the transfer of all the instantaneous angular momentum of the bat to the ball. If there were such a threat to wrists, the playing time of players would be measured in weeks.

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