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 ...
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 ...
PHOENIX — The sound of the bat is distinctive, forming a particular cacophony against the typical crack of wood and baseballs and the radio hits blasting over the speakers at Camelback Ranch. Instead ...
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 ...
You know the deal by now: The New York Yankees hit a bajillion home runs on opening weekend, with several of the sluggers involved swinging “torpedo” bats that are crafted more like bowling pins than ...
Earlier in the season, Statcast unveiled their new bat tracking data, which gave us a handful of new leaderboards. Here at Rotoworld, we broke down all those metrics with James Schiano looking at ...
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, ...