When Juan Soto steps to the plate this weekend in the Subway Series, he’ll be missing something. Not the camaraderie of his former New York Yankees teammates, or the protection of any legendary ...

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 ...

Track it. Vet it. Scout it. Get it. That’s been the playbook when it comes to new publicly tracked statistics in the past — they’ve moved from fancy new numbers to accepted metrics and then scouting ...

The best baseball player in the world has great bat speed. Just one more way Shohei Ohtani stands out. Ohtani having top-tier ...

We are more than two weeks into the 2026 season and overreactions reign supreme. So we are going to look at some early data, examine the historical context of that data, and make our best guesses as ...

There's one Big Three on Statcast's new bat tracking leaderboard, and it's the big three Bronx Bombers: Giancarlo Stanton, Aaron Judge and Juan Soto. Stanton, Judge and Soto all have elite bat speed.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Mariners are swinging slower and hitting worse, but connecting these dots isn’t as simple as it seems. Bat speed is down for half the Mariners’ lineup over the first 2 1/2 weeks of the season.

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 ...