Baseball is harder to play then tennis!

"It is the same concept as the ball slowing down. you will be expecting another 100 mph fastball. Then you have to adjust to a adjust to a slower pitch." No. An entirely different pitch or serve is not the same as slowing down 26 miles per hour in one pitch. "http://boston.redsox.mlb.com...... Dice K has 6 pitches. Because of his variety it makes it extremely hard to hit. He has a four seam fastball, two seam, cutter, curve, slider, and change up. This variety makes you really wonder what will be coming. Therefore he will mix his pitches making you guess what is coming. He would throw you a fastball, then hit you with a curve, then keep mixed it up where you don"t know what will be coming. Because of this it will make it much harder to hit a baseball than a tennis ball." Dice K has a career 4.52 ERA, and a 1.42 WHIP. He's hardly difficult to hit off of. http://espn.go.com... "In baseball the ball can be called a strike when it is outside of the strike zone. In tennis there is replay if I am not mistaken. Also it is much harder to judge if the ball is a strike in baseball. Just your head is facing the way the ball is coming from which makes it harder to see. In tennis your whole body is facing the right direction. You also will have much less time to react like I had stated in my previous argument." No, there are only replays on challenges in tennis. http://en.wikipedia.org... "Now on to the argument about catching the ball. You don"t have to catch the ball in tennis so you cant contradict this. Therefore making this one of my strongest arguments. It is hard to catch a ball that is a fly ball in the outfield. You have to be able to judge the ball weather it well go over your head or if it will fall short. The average bat speed in the MLB is between 100 and 110. Now a ball being thrown 90 mph will jump off that bat really fast. Now think how hard it would be to catch a ground ball. You need to also be able to catch the ball with a backhand, running up on it, waiting on it, bare handing it, and when someone throws it to you. Also you have to throw a ball from 5 to 127 feet and 3 and 3/8ths inches in time to get a runner out. You have to have a lot of power the throw someone out from the third baseline to first. Or from behind the plate to second in time to throw out a runner sealing to second. Throwing a baseball with power and pace is hard to do if you haven"t done it a long time. It can be hard to make throws in time to get the runner out. Time in baseball is measured by the 60 yard dash which would be a sprint to 2nd. The average time in the MLB is 6.7 " 6.9 seconds. That means you have about 3 and a half seconds from when the ball is hit to get the runner out at first. You have to field the ball, come up to make the throw, and beat that time in around 3 seconds. Very hard." Could I please get a source or two for all of these numbers and calculations? "You also had no argument about the fact that a baseball player has to cover more surface area to field a ball." I didn't argue this because there is no evidence that I can find for this, so really you cannot make this claim for baseball either. Otherwise, it's purely an opinion. Catching the baseball hardly automatically makes baseball harder than tennis. You can't catch a ball in tennis because it isn't part of the rules. You also can't catch a ball in hockey, or soccer, or boxing, does that automatically make baseball harder? I don't see how catching a ball automatically makes baseball harder. There is no way for me to prove that catching a baseball is hard or not hard other than personal experience. Growing up I played baseball. I didn't ever practice and I made the little league all star teams all 5 years I played. I first picked up a baseball at a friend's game when their team was short a player. I got into the game, recorded 2 hits, and caught numerous balls. I was picked #1 overall for fall ball despite missing the try out. I was a natural at baseball. However, the first time I picked up a tennis racquet I felt like I had no coordination. I couldn't hit the tennis ball over the net. It took me days and days of playing before finally being able to return a basic serve. (This serve was probably about 50 miles per hour.) In my personal experience tennis is drastically harder than baseball. Back to the sport of tennis where I have barely even made any arguments, just countered your baffling ones. Tennis has many facets to the game, serving, returning, volleying, drop shots, placement and endurance to name a few. Games of tennis can last as long as 4-5 hours at a time constantly running back and forth. All tennis players are in top physical shape which you cannot say about all baseball players. (Manny Ramirez is the perfect example here.) You mention baseball players tracking down balls and making a catch, well tennis players do the same exact thing numerous times during one rally. They don't do it once then stand for the next hour or play, they hit the ball and run, hit and run, the duration of the match. I really can't stress the amount of footwork, endurance and hand eye coordination needed to play tennis.