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Originally Posted by palli
Sorry, I did not understand your post correctly.
But the article has it as you write: Pitcher have absolutly no control if the FB falls for a hit or not. It is all defense and to a smaller amount the batter.
palli
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And I am saying, if we got superman defenders, pitcher would have absolutely no control if other kind of balls would be a hit or not either. Right now there are obvious differences, because the defense couldn't handle groundballs or linedrives as well as flyballs.
The most significant factor would be flight time, which would limit the fielder reaction time. I would say the better the defender, the less difference between linedrives and flyballs. Groundballs varies more in speed, but they'd definitely be slower than linedrives.
Now if we consider what makes a ball linedrive or flyball, we'd see it's mostly about the spin at contact and contact angle. That's why the kind of pitch a pitcher is throwing might be key. I doubt the result would be the same in a league with mostly fastballs, and a league with half fastball, half breaking balls.
What I am trying to say is all those correlations were just a slice of the current MLB setting, and hardly something proven universal. What variety of pitches are there, what's the overall defense ability in the league, and probably a lot of other factors would show different correlations.