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 ...

Pitching is dialed in right now around baseball. Here’s some evidence: One pitcher throws a unique changeup in August 2024, and by the next spring training, nearly two dozen pitchers are using the ...

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, ...

Jac Caglianone struggled in his MLB debut last season but his swing metrics hint at a better sophomore campaign. Geoff Stellfox / Getty Images The tools are new. Mistakes will be made as we try to ...

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 is a game of numbers, and Major League Baseball just released a bunch of them to break down batting. MLB's Hawk-Eye tracking system uses 12 cameras around each team's ballpark, including five ...

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 ...

What do you look for in a prospect? Bat speed. How did they find players who swung the bat quickly? By watching hundreds of players every spring. StatCast made the category a little more clear, ...

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 ...

Thanks to Kyle Bland over at Pitcher List, we have this awesome chart on bat speed risers and fallers for early 2025 action that I encourage you to peruse in detail. What Kyle has also added are ...