MLB hitters are training for bat speed as pitchers train for velocity, using data and technology to improve performance.

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 ...

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 ...

Pitching is dialed in right now around baseball. Here’s some evidence: One pitcher throws a unique changeup in August 2024, and by the next spring training, nearly two dozen pitchers are using the ...

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 ...

Major League Baseball's recent decision to make "Bat Speed" statistics publicly available has added a new dimension to how fans and analysts perceive the game. Bat speed, as defined by MLB.com, ...

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 ...

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, ...

What do you look for in a prospect? Bat speed. How did they find players who swung the bat quickly? By watching hundreds of players every spring. StatCast made the category a little more clear, ...

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 ...