I want to start this by saying, I am not so idiotic as to think I actually would be able to hit a major league pitcher.
But when presented with the “do you think you’d be able to even make contact on 1 out of 100 pitches by a pitcher”, I’d like to understand why.
Like if they did nothing but pitch breaking stuff, couldn’t I just overcorrect? Same deal with fastballs? I’m sure they would mix it up, but out of 100 straight pitches, if you were a major-league pitcher, what would you do to make sure that they never made contact?
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There’s a delay of about 0.1 second from your eyes seeing something and your brain receiving this information. What we think we see is not what our eyes actually see, but what our brain predicts is going to happen after ~0.1 second, to compensate for this delay. This is the reason why optical illusions work, where you look at some unmoving image and perceive constant movement.
Because of this effect, an untrained average person will simply be unable to perceive/react to the ball fast enough.
P.S. 1 out of 100 is a very low bar to reach though, and you might be able to hit 1 out of 100 just purely by luck.
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