Bat speed numbers are the new exit velocity. Every leaderboard refresh produces a tweet, and every tweet implies the same ...

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 ...

The MLB released new data on players’ bat swing speeds that could determine if sluggers are slowing down at the plate, and two of the New York Mets and MLB’s best hitters had opinions on the advanced ...

It's not just about home runs. Pay attention to bat speed, hard-hit rate and barrel rate, too. With just two weeks of games in the bank, we don’t have nearly enough data to draw any conclusions about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...