How the swing metrics Bat Speed, Swing Tilt and Intercept Point can help identify potential breakout hitters for the 2026 ...
Over the past two decades, the rise of technology has allowed baseball to quantify the previously unquantifiable. First, it was fastball velocity for every MLB pitch. Then it was spin rate and pitch ...
As I’m sure you’ve heard/seen if you spend any time on Fantasy Baseball Twitter, there are new leaderboards on Baseball Savant that provide daily bat-tracking metrics. In data going back to April 3, ...
Major League Baseball's recent decision to make "Bat Speed" statistics publicly available has added a new dimension to how fans and analysts perceive the game. Bat speed, as defined by MLB.com, ...
Baseball Savant added bat speed measurements to its pages today. It’s yet another excellent addition to an outstanding website. It will allow a whole lot of people to study a significant aspect of ...
Last year, Statcast gave us some fun new toys to play with when they dropped their Bat Speed Leaderboards. At the time, we discussed that bat speed had a close correlation to power, with every 1 mph ...