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[Matt]

Originally Posted by JJ

When they first started "monkeying" with bat specifications, I said, and still say, the cheapest and easiest was to alter the game for speed of the ball off the bat is to doctor the BALL. A $5 ball is a lot cheaper than a $250 bat. But, like lots of other things, greater minds than mine are at work on things like that....

JJ

There's not much you can do with the ball. The ball is not what provides the energy of its flight--and it is already in a form that is not conducive to conservation of kinetic energy.