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Modern golf analysis teaches us that there is an optimum launch angle for every velocity. Find that optimum angle and you win the kewpie doll. Guys today "dial in" that angle by changing driver loft, shaft and ball configurations to get it just right. Ball changes allow you to optimize spin rates to ball velocity. It makes a difference. A big one. It is one reason guys are so much longer today on the average. A few minutes in the machine gives you tons of info for tweaking your equipment.
I wonder if Smoak's launch angles are "tweeners," not enough to get the ball to the 4th row and too much for the ball to a smoking rope gapper. Spin rates? What do they look like?
does anybody study that stuff in baseball? Matty?
Of course you can't "dial in" the perfect combo, but it would be interesting to see.
moe