This second in a series of articles looking at the new bat speed data available on Baseball Savant focuses on Squared-Up Rate. Kind of. We’ve already covered Bat Speed in detail; Bat Speed shows us ...

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 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 ...

One of the best compliments a switch hitter can be given is that it’s hard to decide which of their swings is the better one. For others, one of the swings is clearly inferior to the other. Take Elly ...

Bat speed is just one part of what makes a hitter who they are, but it’s a key profile component. Most results-oriented stats are still quite noisy at this point in the season, but changes in bat ...

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 ...

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 ...