Its trajectory is determined entirely by how the seams affect the turbulent airflow around the baseball ... the better to capture two successive images of the balls in motion.

The 27-page report ultimately concluded that the increase in home run rates in MLB can be attributed to the inconsistent baseball seam heights as well as players embracing launch angle.

“I think the seams were pretty close to minor-league baseball seams,” Wilk said. “They weren’t super tightly wound like the big-league balls are here. They also weren’t like college ...

When a baseball is tilted and spinning just right, its raised, hand-stitched seams skew the process by which its wake is created and radically shift its trajectory in the air Receive a weekly dose ...

Major League Baseball recently released its official report ... Those used to stitch the seams on the 2016-2017 balls are 9.0% thicker than those on the 2014 balls. Advertisement Lace thickness ...