Archive for May 2016
Vision Training In Baseball
Ophthalmology in MLB has evolved: Teams who once shunned prospects who wore glasses now use EEGs to track what hitters see and when. “Hitters have three tenths of a second on a 90 mph pitch to make a decision,” says Keith Smithson, the Nationals’ team optometrist. “If we can buy a tenth in there somewhere,…
Read MoreNew Vision Techniques to Improve Batting Averages
How fast can you make a decision? Can you think as fast as a pitcher pitches? It takes less than .4 of a second for a ball to get from a pitcher to the mound. Even for and average MLB player with better than 20/20 vision, making a decision on a ball moving that fast…
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