Update on Will’s hand: Turns out Will got jammed so bad in this video that it caused some minor damage to the ulnar nerve near his thumb 😬. But long story short: after 10-12 days of ice/rest/ibuprofen, we’re 100% back baby! Definitely gonna be wearing a thumbpro guard next time we do this lol And one more thing to note here: You'll notice a different between the pitch velocity being shown (Stalker Radar Gun - yellow numbers) and the velo being shown from the Hittrax. That's because the Stalker (meant to capture pitch velo) measures the velocity of the ball right at the release of the pitcher/machine (peak velo) - this is how all pitch velocity is recorded. And the Hittrax (meant to capture batted ball velo) measures the velocity of the ball off the bat, and the pitch velo at the time it reaches home plate where it has slowed down a bit due to air drag.

Should've mixed in a 73 mph curve to buckle Sim

Hitting tanks with Will is my favorite activity in the whole world

As fast as that machine was, it's crazy to think there's pitchers out there throwing sinkers and cutters at that speed.

I love how Will is just timing it and swinging csuse he knows it's gonna be in the zone and just praying to the stars he hits it. Hope your ✋️ 🤚 better soon brotha

When sim started swinging the Mac n cheese goods I completely forgot they were trying to hit above 100mph

As a regular guy, I can appreciate how hard this is. When I was younger (in my early 20s), I tried the "fastball" lane in the batting cages. The pitches were low 80s mph and you got 20 of them. I foul tipped one. Whiffed on the others. I think the regular lanes were about 60 mph and I would usually do quite well in those. The jump from the 60s to the 80s increases the level of difficulty exponentially. I can only imagine how much harder the 100 mph balls are to hit. Many people don't realize the size of the talent gap between pro athletes and regular people (even regular people who are pretty good at whatever sports thing).

For some reason, this video felt a lot more casual than other videos you guys have uploaded. I love the casual feel and style of it. Keep it up!

Love y’all keep up the good work y’all always help me decide on a bat and can always enjoy watching y’all after a rough day

Love the collabs wuth Sim. We gotta see the boys with Bauer. I want to see both whole crews and all the MLB, MiLB, NCAA, & HS guests in one epic vid.

Will sacrificing his body to bring us content. He is the BOSS. Rock on Will and KoJ, Rock on.

I now have an irrational fear of being jammed by an 100mph pitch. The chances are incredibly low, but never 0 apparently.

You 2 should try going back and forth with speed, like hitting 100 MPH on 1 pitch then like sim a change up at like 75. See how that pulls you off.

Man I need to hang out with you guys… the vibes are always positive and even tho I’d suck because I haven’t hit in almost 20 years y’all would still make me feel like a million bucks from your attitudes

Let's go, love your vids, I travel for baseball across the coutry and my team talks about u guys

All the respect to these boys! Love the videos! Keep em coming. I go to you guys for all the bat reviews and then you throw in some of these gems and it's just the cherry on top to your channel!

4:00 Bro's ...... I haven't swung a bat against a good pitcher in 3 decades. That stinger brought back some memories guys. That was a good one!!! Ya never forget that ZAP!!

It was so nice when Eric said ahhhhh man I’m sorry when he broke the bat 😢 so nice

The way Eric was so sorry when he broke their bat 😢 that was quite nice

you can see his timing get better and better as the ball goes right center left that's cool AF

When i was 13-15 junior babe ruth we took about 75% of our BP off hitting machine jacked to between 80 and 100mph and that was by far the best hitting team i was ever on. You hitting like that during practice made hitting kids throwing between 60 and 80mph in games like taking batting practice. And we were swinging something like 33" -12 2 3/4" barrel air attack 2 500+footers were not uncommon even at 15 years old.

"Sure you can hit 100 mph fastball, but can you get out of the way of one?" - Dave Henderson

It's crazy that Sim can hit a Homer off of 100 mph on fenway but somehow didn't make it to the majors

That's a collab I can get behind. Nice work.

Yo what up will !!! Love the vids, hope u feel better soon

The other guy is off balance. You are doing it perfection.

I've done some research on this and from what i found, when it comes to ideal speeds, it turns out there is a weird correlation to pitch speed and swing speed. So if you're swing is 90 mph, a 90 mph fastball would be ideal for you in terms of reaction time and overall power. The higher the overall velocity, the lower the COR of the ball, but the more energy it has. Based on pure momentum formulas, a machine that swings the bat like a person against a machine that pitches perfect heaters with perfect accuracy can have an ideal pitch speed of up to 250 mph, but when you account for human reaction speed and rotational timing, there seems to be a relation that I call rotational symmetry

Imagine hitting 100 mph in cold weather that would hurt so bad!

2:57 Physics nerd here: the ball actually does not rise, as that would break the laws of physics. However, you have done so many reps that you expect a certain amount of vertical drop from the pitches. At this velocity and spin rate, however, the ball does not drop as much as your eyes and brain expect it to. You expect it to be in a certain place, it ends up being higher than that expectation, and your brain interprets this as the ball rising.

Right at 1:52 the ball comes out and he makes contact in 23 frames on a 60 frame time line. That's just over 3/8ths of a second. You'll notice he starts his swing before the ball even comes out at him.

Your Sim colabs are great

I was hitting 103 MPH pitches like 17 out of 20 pitches. My exo velocity was getting to 107-110 and launch angles were around 55-64 degrees. On Hit Trax software I was hitting 490-520 footers to right, I was definitely milliseconds late on most of them. Then I woke up and felt like shit. Got up. Took a piss, and went back to bed and proceeded to dream drag bunts the rest of the night. This channel got me dreaming of juice and bombs.

Well, you know where the pitch is going to be, and the speed it is going to travel. So there is no concern for "chin music", a curve, or even a straight change. Having said that, even after years of practice, I was well below average when it came to hitting a moving ball with a piece of sporting equipment. That would include a thrown pitch with a bat, a tennis serve with a racket, or a ping pong ball with a paddle. However, I could catch, throw, and shoot a basketball fairly well.

He's got a nice swing. Hope he does big things in career.

This is the first time I've seen Eric batting; Really good swing when he times it up.

Nice hitting! The brain is so amazing in how it adapts to changes like this. However, it cannot adapt to change ups that make the fastball seem like 130mph lol.

Just found you guys and subbed! Hittin’ the cages is one of my all-time favorite workouts. I used to spend 2 hours a day, 3 days a week crushing 89-92mph heaters at my local cage. I miss it…

man, when the big fella got locked in, he was mashing. nice work fellas

same thing happened to my hand this year mid game, i couldn’t grip the ball and threw 3 straight pitches to the backstop 😂

Moral of the story is that, if you have good technique, it’s all about timing and seeing that ball. It can only come so fast. If you can hit 94 you can hit 100 and when you get on a machine you can make a lot of assumptions. One of these days I want to step in front of a legit 100 flail 20 times then start maybe connecting 😂

106 home run with a cracked bat is nuts

Sim is so wholesome this video.

Reminds me of how I ripped the tendon away from my thumb lol. Then I discovered the glory that is those rubber thumb guards when batting. Even to this day I can’t imagine batting without one of those on my top hand thumb.

I'm 75 and in a wheelchair but up to my early 50's if you know where it's going and your only getting fasballs it's not that tough. I used to do that. Unfortunately tech then didn't tell how far it would go. Just start your swing (footwork) before it's even released. Playing stickball with my brothers in 1960's screwing around older brother would come up to maybe 15 feet and throw. Knowing where he was putting it I could still get wood on it and he had a pretty good arm. From NY we used little pink Spalding or Pensy Pinky balls and regular wooden bats sometimes cracked that we would tape up.

The crack corked the shit out of it 🤣🤣🤣

watching Sheffield hit a ball was just insane with that stance he had. How he EVER got around on it is mind blowing

Gotta love baseball

Faced a guy clocked at 98 (lefthanded) in high school. Ball seemed much faster coming from him than the 100MPH pitching machine we used to get ready. My ground out felt pretty good especially 4 years later when he pitched in and won a World Series.

Dang he is making a softball type swing on a 100mph heater. Very quick bat!

Howard Johnson looking guy from Rookie of the Year movie: I eat fastballs for breakfast!!

I found hitting off of a machine much more difficult than hitting off of a real pitcher.

I wish i could just hang out and hit with this setup with the boys every day. Live abs and all

Lol, I tried 100 at the cages in Ocala with my nephew who was the number 4 catcher in the nation in high school. I’m 6’3” 296 and my hands were screaming for a week. Maybe we should leave it to my favorite player Ji-Man or Aaron who’s having a good season. Go Rays!!!!

Love ur vids

Good Job hitting, knowing that it will be a fastball in the zone every time makes it much easier than real pitching but not a cakewalk.

Straight BP. I used to stand halfway up the cage against our machine to try and simulate this. Fun times!

Well done man

These guys are beasts!

That is SO fast. Unreal

Bro Will is so down he sacrifices his body!

"that was hammered" ... gets a single lol

the fact that humans can turn this around with a wood bat, not knowing if it will be a strike/ball and potentially facing a 95MPH slider is insane lol

Pulling that ball was amazing

Throw some changeups in there and see if timing is maintained 🤣

In the outro Eric looked like he didn’t know what to do lol

Will : exists Sim: ooooo

As I've heard a major league pitcher say "the difference between 98 and 100 is 'that looked fast' and 'that sounded fast'"

this is way different than hitting a pitcher, there's no wind up or any visual clues for different positioning/timing.. he's rearing back to hit as the ball is still in the machine

The 2nd batter has a lot of bat speed. These guys are not just regular youtubers. They have to have some baseball experience.

The mac and cheese bat sounds like when you knock somebody out in Smash Bros

sometimes when metal bats break they have more pop.

even the Bruce Bolts couldn't take the sting out of 101...this was great!!!

baseball bros after school >>>>>

Bro thats gas…

Cat X putting on a show!

The goats

Can you try this with a Louisville Genesis USSSA bat? Maybe a Kobe or APG??

These guys have so much movement in their swings from start to finish. Can definitely tell they're bp guys, leave it to big boy velo to find the holes

Next up: Easton speed vs 100 mph. We’re waiting on it will!

I've only just started this video -- is there anything protecting the camera from a line drive? If there is, I missed it.

Those were some zingers!!

The faster it is the harder and farther it goes

Eric sims swing is just pure dinger

Anyone with any scrap of talent can time up a 100mph straight fastball, especially when you know it's right down the plate. These guys are better than I was, swing mechanics and everything, so I'm not taking anything away from them of course. But it's still amazing seeing anyone hit over .250 let alone higher in MLB with 94 mph sliders and 88 mph sharp curves and 100 cutters and sinker. Unreal and under appreciated how talented those guys are.

Should bring Matt Antonelli on your channel and see who the UKposts batting King is :)

Being a lefty and watching will get jammed, it made me think how bad it must hurt for a 102 clase cutter to jam my hands

Maxbats are quality. How come you never have them on the show?

Much harder to hit off a machine than timing a throwing arm, however will has a massive front leg kick in his swing. His front leg was touching down and the ball was already there.

Sim makes me happy man

I gotta do this at least once!

Thats awesome man but think if “randomly” the machine threw that fast at your head!!

This makes me respect players like Adley Rutschman and J.D. Martínez.

Imagine seeing 100 mph on the black from deGrom then getting a 93/94mph slider. 😂

I always wondered how videos like this work. The video is on your channel, but in their facility. Do they get a cut of the revenue or something?

Will I need help with a bat I need a new bbcor and wood any tips the ES69 is sold out any bats to recommend. Looking for a budget bat.

It’s harder from a pitching machine for sure because you don’t see a “Wind up”😊

"I like literal mac n cheese too" we can tell eric, we can tell.

So in MLB composite graphite, carbon fibre or titanium bats are allowed along with wood but not aluminum?

Most of the time Sim is so ahead of pitches in the 90's pulling them hard foul that it actually works perfect for 100+ heaters, he made them look easy while Will was stuck back side because his timing is perfect for the slower pitches

This puts in perspective how hard it is to hit off of a pitcher throwing 100+. And the pitches are much less predictable than the machine.