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HIT CLASSIFICATIONS Hit Classification Definitions BIP (Balls in Play) - Any ball hit within a range of RANGE CHART –45 to 45 degrees exit direction <0º Dribbler 0º - 6º Ground Ball Hard Hit Ball – Any ball hit within 10% of a players max exit velocity 6º -15º Low Line Drive 15º - 24º High Line Drive Ropes – Any ball hit within 10% of a players max exit velocity and within a range of 10 to 20 degrees 24º - 50º Fly Ball >50º Pop Up Bombs - Any ball hit within 10% of a players max exit velocity and hit at 20+ degrees DATA GUIDE

RAPSODO.COM FOR [email protected] measure 844.772.7763 to master. HITTING Backspin Backspin 3 3D SPINNING BALL (LHH) (RHH) 12 11 1 1 RAPSODO HITTING METRICS: 2 RECORD VIDEO 10 2 MEDIANS BY AGE GROUP Point and shoot slow-mo video 4 SPIN DIRECTION Sidespin Sidespin Rotation of the ball shown Hooked (RHH) Sliced (RHH) directly from the Rapsodo iPad Sliced (LHH) 9 3 Hooked (LHH) application, including data on clock representation Live/BP overlay and auto-cropping. Backspin Perfect Backspin (Hour:Minute) 8 4 (RHH) Backspin (LHH) AGE EXIT LAUNCH SPIN DISTANCE 7 5 6 GROUP VELO ANGLE (RPM) (FEET) Topspin to Topspin to MLB 90.5 14.8 1898 210.4 the Right the Left COLLEGE 81.0 15.6 2013 165.8 18U 78.7 16.1 1913 159.6 6 5 16U 72.2 15.4 1856 140.5 SPIN RATE (RPM) 14U 66.3 15.9 1998 126.0 SPIN RATE RESULT 1 5 10 9 12U 57. 0 16.3 1963 100.7 <700 Ball was squared up resulting in a knuckleball-type ball flight Soft Toss 3 <1500 Squared up, little spin induced effect to the ball flight AGE EXIT LAUNCH SPIN DISTANCE 2 GROUP VELO ANGLE (RPM) (FEET) 4 11 1500-2500 Ideal amount of backspin to MLB 90.3 14.2 1555 210.3 create distance as balls will generally still carry a high COLLEGE 83.8 15.6 1580 180.1 exit velocity 18U 7 7. 7 17. 4 1451 182.7 1500-3500 Typically see a dip in exit 16U 72.8 16.9 1430 158.0 velocity at this spin rate because 14U 64.5 16.4 1665 131.9 too much of the hit went to the 12U 53.3 17.1 1581 100.2 8 spin and not the exit velocity. Not impossible to create 7 distance, but likely to reduce exit Tee velocity so balls will not travel as far, even with the extra spin AGE EXIT LAUNCH SPIN DISTANCE induced carry. GROUP VELO ANGLE (RPM) (FEET) >3500 Miss hit creating too much back MLB 83.4 9.4 1280 137. 3 spin resulting in lower COLLEGE 73.7 11. 3 1194 118.7 exit velocity and carry. 18U 71.3 10.7 1203 115.9 16U 68.6 12.3 1242 115.2 14U 62.2 11. 8 1238 98.4 9 EXIT DIRECTION -45º 0º 45º 8 3D BALL FLIGHT 6 SESSION TYPE 12U 51.2 15.6 118 0 89.5 Ball path shown by exit direction Dashed line shows ball path with Inbound velocity classifications degree. The right side of the field is no spin related movement 3.5’ positive and the left side of the field is HIT PLACEMENT INBOUND VELOCITY (MPH) negative. Solid line is actual ball path Tee 0 7 Soft Toss <30 10 LAUNCH ANGLE 45º 1.5’ Live/BP 30+ The degree of angle the ball leaves the 20” bat. Positive represents elevated balls 0º and negative represents a ball hit towards the ground. 17” -45º RAPSODO.COM