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English citations of barrel
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(round vessel or cask):
- 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
- As to the barrel that had been wet, I did not apprehend any danger from that; so I placed it in my new cave, which, in my fancy, I called my kitchen; and the rest I hid up and down in holes among the rocks, so that no wet might come to it, marking very carefully where I laid it.
- Upon this occasion of removing my ammunition I happened to open the barrel of powder which I took up out of the sea, and which had been wet, and I found that the water had penetrated about three or four inches into the powder on every side, which caking and growing hard, had preserved the inside like a kernel in the shell, so that I had near sixty pounds of very good powder in the centre of the cask.
- I left them my firearms—viz. five muskets, three fowling-pieces, and three swords. I had above a barrel and a half of powder left; for after the first year or two I used but little, and wasted none. I gave them a description of the way I managed the goats, and directions to milk and fatten them, and to make both butter and cheese.
(baseball statistic derived from angle and velocity):
- 2019 March 9, “What is a Barrel?”, in MLB.com[1]:
- The Barrel classification is assigned to batted-ball events whose comparable hit types (in terms of exit velocity and launch angle) have led to a minimum .500 batting average and 1.500 slugging percentage since Statcast was implemented Major League wide in 2015.
- 2019 December, Sam Denomme, “The Importance of Vertical Approach Angles”, in WFU Sports Analytics[2]:
- According to Statcast metrics, approximately 5% of batted balls result in a “barrel”, a certain combination of exit velocity and launch angle that yield elite batting averages and slugging percentages.
- 2021 February 16, Mike Podhorzer, “Introducing Batter xHR/FB Rate Version 4.0: Barrel FB% Fun”, in RotoGraphs[3]:
- Today, let’s move along to Barrel FB%. Barrels is my most favorite metric developed by the Statcast crew because it combines exit velocity (EV) with launch angle (LA).