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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...