Related XKCD (takes your question to the extreme): https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

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I don't have the knowledge of physics or math to figure it out, but I suppose we could find something that definitely can rip through someone, like a small cannonball, and figure out how much force it would put on the body, and adjust the mass and size for a baseball and see how much speed you'd need to get that amount of force?

I'm not physicist, but I'd imagine the force required to propel the ball to that speed would also disintegrate the ball itself?

The shape of the ball would exert the force over a relatively large area compared to a bullet, and the ball material is much weaker than metal objects that would blow through people (ie cannonballs).

So the force required would increase due to larger surface area, but then the ball would break apart from said force. The solution is a metal baseball propelled by a railgun.

Now to just find victims test subjects to trial it.

A pitcher of what?

The Waterjet Channel used to do things like this. They'd launch stuff out of an air cannon at a torso made of ballistics gel on what seemed like a regular basis.

And I daresay The Slow Mo Guys, if not also the OG Mythbusters must have done something similar at some point, not that I can call anything specific to mind right now.

The interesting question is how does the pitcher hit themselves? Throw the ball around the world? Portal gun?

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I don’t think it’s possible from a bat at any force. The ball would unravel and slow from wind before it hits the person and at worst it would just knock them back.

It's not a "subreddit".

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

You've been watching too many cartoons.