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Not All Shifted Wakes Are Equal: Post 61

Posted on October 26, 2020January 11, 2021 by John Garrett

Twitter: @jwillyg20 It’s time to define a Seam Shifted Wake (SSW) pitch more carefully. The main feature is that a baseball’s seams can cause earlier flow separation on one side of the ball relative to the other. This asymmetric wake is what we refer to as the “shifted” wake (see Continue Reading

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