On a similar note, a fast baseball takes less than 450 ms to go from the pitcher's hand to the plate. The "turnaround time" for the bat, from when it starts mov

On a similar note, a fast baseball takes less than 450 ms to go from the pitcher's hand to the plate. The "turnaround time" for the bat, from when it starts moving until it hits the ball, is 150 ms. That leaves about 300 ms in which the batter must first spend some time analyzing the path and spin of the ball, then decide whether and how to hit the ball. The only way to make it work is subconsciously.