The 2023 San Francisco Giants don’t hit the ball hard. This isn’t a revelation or breaking news. It’s been common knowledge for a while. This isn’t a team that’s built around exit velocity, and it was ...

Bat speed gains matter only when stronger contact follows, making squared-up rate the better early indicator for projecting sustainable fantasy production. Bat speed numbers are the new exit velocity.

Talking to Mookie Betts, I almost wanted to pull an Allen Iverson. “Bat speed? You’re worried about bat speed?” An eight-time All-Star, seven-time Silver Slugger and three-time World Series champion ...

Major League Baseball publicly released a trove of bat-tracking data today that offers fascinating insights into what makes the best hitters good -- and the worst bad. With everything from bat speed ...

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 ...

Bat speed numbers are the new exit velocity. Every leaderboard refresh produces a tweet, and every tweet implies the same thing: swinging harder is good, full stop. It isn't. A bat speed gain only ...