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 ...

If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. As baseball fans, we have become spoiled by having nearly every action on the field captured and tracked ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Red Sox player development department has put a heavy focus on helping their prospects increase bat speed. “It’s really important as you get old, for sure,” Red Sox ...