Can More People Hit A Home Run Or Dunk A Basketball?

[Mr Hate Coffee]

I dunno. I'm 6'4" and black and mostly hang with black people so I wanna say more people can dunk.

But then again when I think of my white classmates from college, I'm 100% sure more of them can hit a home run than dunk.

 

[luckyse7enz]

the only limiting factor for dunking is height. at about 6' 2" even if you're out of shape there's no way you couldn't dunk..

hitting a home run takes skill beyond just power. a lot of strong mf's couldn't hit a homer.


average height in the us for males is 5' 10"




ima say dunk

lol I'm guessing ya'll must be about 5'7" to be saying stuff like this. Dunking is definitely easier but its nowhere near "automatic" at 6'2. For example Steve Nash was 6'3" and he could probably dunk but he wasn't risking it on fast breaks...

I'm 6'2" and I havent been able to dunk since I was 16 and under 220 pounds and even then it was a struggle. And I'm above average athletically...

Dunking isn't easy for an average athlete until about 6'5"

Right. Lot of assumption that height = dunking. I know plenty of 6'2 people with no kind of bounce mechanics and even with that, you've got to factor the ability to get enough handle on the ball on the way up to get it over.

That said, I still say dunking would be easier than hitting a Major League HR. I know too many random high school students with bunnies for this not to be true.

 

[How Sway?]

I've hit more balls ( )out the park than dunks But im on the short side so

 

[Astroslik]

If you said hitting a professional HR then basketball. But Ima go with hr, I was knocking shyt out of the park during intramural softball leagues on college

 

[GoldenGlove]

It takes more skill to be able to hit a homer, it takes more athleticism to dunk


I can't call it overall tho, question really blowing me when I sit and think about it

 

[Greenhornet]

I'll never be able to dunk so Im gonna try to hit a homerun all day

 

[brother walt]

IM Pretty sure I can hit a home run right now shyt not hard

 

[Jplaya2023]

hitting a homerun off of batting practice pitching would be more attainable. People aren't going to become 6'5 if they 5'10 so unless they got them eastbay strength shoes, they will never get the elevation to dunk the ball. I can get coached by a hitting coach on how to properly swing a bat and obtain teaching on how it will work.

 

[CoochieMane]

You do know baseball is an international game that is the number 1 sport in the most populated area in the world right

baseball is number one in China and India?

 

[e001]

To dunk all you need is training to be athletic, everybody can jump, if you're taller than 5'10 with intense training you should be able to do it.
To hit a home run, first you need to be able to hit the ball at the slowest speed possible, which is already hard it self.

 

[I.V.]

Dunk.

 

[FaTaL]

IM Pretty sure I can hit a home run right now shyt not hard

 

[Niqqa You Gay]

Anyone saying dunking must think the majority of the world is 30 and under, thin and tall. You know how many people with bad knees and feet out there on top of being over 30, under 6' and or overweight? You can't just train all these people to be jumping machines. Training them to hit slow to medium speed baseballs would be hard too, but it's a more realistic

 

[Rottweiler]

You have to be very athletic to dunk especially if you're under 6'. (which most people are)

With enough time with a hitting coach, you could possibly hit a homerun.

 

[Bigtymer301]

Where are you getting those numbers? I've seen people hit home runs off a tee and they were not Albert Pujols by any means. Pitch speed and bat speed are not interchangeable. If you take a 90mph swing on a stationary ball it can go over the fence. If you throw a 90mph pitch off a stationary bat it might go 10 feet.

I'm getting those numbers from advanced metrics. Forget the fact that I played baseball, physics alone says that's impossible. Exit speed of a baseball determines how far a ball travels. Exit speed=q*(pitch speed) + (1+q)*(bat speed) where q is roughly 0.2 for a wood bat. Average MLB fastball speed is 91 mph out of the hand, and 83 mph at the plate. MLB average exit speed is 103 mph, bat speed ranges roughly from 70-85 mph.



Exit speed required for a given distance
Using the Baseball Home Run Simulator here are the required exit speeds to hit a baseball each distance:

Warning: These distances may vary depending on angle, elevation, etc.

• 90 mph, 300 feet
• 93 mph, 315 feet
• 95 mph, 326 feet
• 100 mph, 350 feet
• 102 mph, 360 feet
• 105 mph, 375 feet
• 110 mph, 400 feet
• 115 mph, 420 feet
• 120 mph, 443 feet

Note: Based on the above, 1 mph of additional exit speed makes the ball go 5 more feet. This would be roughly 4 feet for 1mph bat speed - which is less than the 7-8 feet we have heard from other studies. It's clear from measured MLB exit speeds for every single at-bat in 2009 and 2010, that no MLB player could possibly have a bat speed anywhere near 100 mph. As you can see from the chart at the top, Pujols had above average exit speed of 106.9 mph in 2009, so his bat speed must be higher than average. His average bat speed was 88 mph. Average MLB homerun distance is 330 feet.
Your, telling me you saw average people hit a home run off a tee, in a major league ball park, with a wooden bat.... sorry I don't believe that. No non professional is generating enough bat speed to hit a stationary ball with no velocity 330 feet. In the DMV we hold the baseball championships in the Nats stadium. I go every year for free because of my job. The teams that typically play are teams full of these big white kids. Kids who have been playing baseball their whole lives. Kids that are light-years better hitters than the average person. A lot of D1 talent, and in 4 years I have yet to see anybody come close to hitting a homerun, but I'm suppose to believe that a random person off the street, can just pick up a wooden bat, and hit a baseball off a tee 330 feet....